General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  Signs and symptoms may indicate the presence of a tumor in the colon or rectum. These symptoms are blood in the stool (either bright red or black in color), changes in bowel habits such as diarrhea, constipation or change in stool caliber, and occasionally, abdominal discomfort or pain. Some patients may also have weight loss or anemia. If you have any of these symptoms that last more than two weeks, you should consult your physician.
• Constipation
• Diarrhea

Gynecologists

• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Board certified and trained in several disciplines; Hematology/Oncology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry/Neurology and Pain Management. He has been at the service of the community of Birmingham for the past twenty-five plus years. He was one of the original members in the bone marrow transplantation program at UAB. Dr. Pineda provides clinical service in areas of expertise as well as educating through academic, institutional and community projects.
• Prostate Cancer
  Yes. Did you know that 65% of women Medicare age do not take advantage of yearly mammograms or cancer screening and that it is a covered benefit? And men over the age of 50 do not take advantage of a CEA blood test which gives early detection of prostate cancer. Early detection gives you more options in treatment and can save your life.
• Cancer Care

Neurologists

• Neurology

Psychiatrists

• Psychiatry

Radiologist

• Chemotherapy
  In 2005, Dr. Pineda founded the non-profit organization Cooking with Cancer, INC® and has dedicated time and resources to address patients nutritional problems by creating recipes specifically designed for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation with the mission Helping those afflicted with cancer to enjoy a better quality of life through good food.
• Radiation Therapy
  Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. These drugs work by interfering with the normal function of cancer cells to destroy them. Most anticancer drugs are injected directly into a vein; some may be injected into a muscle or given by mouth. Unlike surgery and radiation therapy, which are used to treat cancer localized in a small part of the body, chemotherapy is systemic treatment, meaning that the drugs flow through the bloodstream to nearly every part of the body.

Dermatologists

• Skin Cancer
  Some types of cancer (including melanoma and cancers of the breast, ovary, prostate, and colon) tend to occur more often in some families than in the rest of the population. It is often unclear whether a pattern of cancer in a family is primarily due to heredity (due to gene mutations), factors in the family environment or lifestyle, or just a matter of chance. Most cancer causing gene changes are the result of factors in lifestyle and environment. However, some alterations that may lead to cancer are inherited and may be passed from parent to child. This does not mean you are certain to develop cancer; it means that the risk is increased.