Breast Health Center
Self-Examination
We all have a personal responsibility to maintain our bodies by performing proactive measures to ensure optimum health. Women, in particular, need to check their bodies for any abnormalities and are especially encouraged to look for breast lumps through self-examination.
If a change in your breast or any lumpiness that does not feel normal is detected, help is a phone call away.
Diagnostic Mammography
Have you detected a lump? Women stand a 90 percent chance of remission and control of breast cancer with early diagnosis.
Appointments are necessary. To schedule your mammogram, call (803) 791-2486
Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
(803) 791-2521
1(800) 635-0858
Our Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator provides guidance, comfort, expertise and support when you need it most.
Detection to Diagnosis in Five Days
There is little more unnerving than discovering you have a lump in your breast.
Our Breast Health Center is designed to reduce the anxiety and stress that accompanies such a discovery. While there is no "typical case" when it comes to breast lumps, our "Five Day Detection to Diagnosis Program" will do just that — provide a definitive answer about the health of your breast within five days after detection.
While roughly 80 percent of breast lumps are not cancerous, if an abnormality is detected women stand a 90 percent chance of remission and control of breast cancer with early diagnosis.
That is why our Breast Health staff makes it possible for rapid entry into the medical system — a system that provides a network of education and emotional support. Under our program, a patient who detects a lump will be seen within 24 hours.
Education
When confronted with breast cancer, every newly diagnosed woman receives a large box of patient education materials covering everything from types of surgical interventions to dealing with the effects of chemo or radiation.
Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
A concerted effort between radiologists, pathologists, physicians and women's imaging help streamline the process of detection to diagnosis. This is achieved through the assistance of our Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator who serves as the liaison between the patient and all other members of the health care team.
A National Benchmark Program
The innovation and success of this program has been nationally noted, serving as a model to multiple institutions from all over the country.
Diagnosis and Support
Women's Imaging
State of the art diagnosis and care in all areas of mammography and breast ultrasound.
Nurse Navigator Services
Helping patients and families through cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Mobile Mamography
View a list of our affiliated OB/GYN physicians and in-hospital OB/GYNs.
