Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Services
For most women, mammography provides the best way to find breast cancer at an early stage, when treatment is usually the most successful. Younger women with a personal or family history of breast cancer may also be candidates for a mammogram.
A mammogram is a low-dose x-ray of your breasts that can detect many changes that are too small or too deep to feel. Mammograms are considered safe, quick, and relatively painless.
These images may be viewed by the radiologist at a work station along with the application of computer-aided detection (CAD).
Benefits and Uses of Ultrasound
Ultrasound imaging is a technique using high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the breasts and other tissues and organs. This procedure involves no radiation; it is painless and non-invasive. Ultrasound, also known as ultrasonography, does not replace mammograms. Instead, it provides a supplementary tool for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer. Ultrasound is used in conjunction with mammography for clarification of inconclusive or abnormal findings.
Diagnosis and treatment methods include:
Your Breast Health Navigator
As a special service to our breast cancer patients, Lakeland Health offers the assistance of a trained registered nurse to serve as your educator and advocate. Lakeland is dedicated to helping you and your family during your diagnostic work up, treatment and/or recovery.
Our Breast Health Manager, Shelley Wilkinson, RN, will serve as guardian of your care and ensure that you receive the support and knowledge you need to successfully navigate through the health care system.
For more information on how the breast health navigator can help you, click here.