TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH

     • Obtain routinely scheduled mammograms
     • Have your health care professional perform annual clinical breast exams.

COMFORTABLE MAMMOGRAPHY?

We do our best to make your mammogram as gentle and fast as possible while also maintaining the highest possible standards of image quality. "Opcomp" is a feature of our Siemens mammography system that senses breast thickness and compressibility. It compresses as long as the breast is soft and pliable, then stops - precisely when image quality is maximized.

DIGITAL BIOPSY and SPOT IMAGING

The Nova 3000 system displays images in near real-time and delivers them quickly to the workstation for post-processing, diagnosis, target-setting, etc. Biopsy targeting takes place on-line, allowing automatic coordinate calculation.

FACTS ABOUT MAMMOGRAPHY:

The amount of radiation exposure from mammography is less than that from a routine chest x-ray. There is far greater risk from not having a mammogram than from the radiation emitted during a mammogram.

Remember a mammogram can detect precancerous changes in the breast.

Early detection and prompt treatment increases the cure rate of breast cancer.

1 of 7 women will develop breast cancer. It is second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in American women.

HIGH RISK FACTORS*

     • Being female
     • Risk increases with age
     • Personal or family history of breast cancer
     • Early menstruation
     • Late menopause
     • Recent use of oral contraceptives or post-menopausal estrogen
     • Never having children or having first live birth at a late age
*American Cancer Society: Facts & Figures 2008