Breast Cancer

Also called digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), this technology is more sensitive than conventional 2D mammography for detecting breast cancer, especially for women with dense breasts and even for women with fatty breasts.

This highly sensitive imaging is sometimes used in conjunction with mammography to screen women who have an elevated risk of breast cancer.

We use sound waves to image the breast and provide additional screening information.

If your breast imaging exams indicate that you need an ultrasound-guided biopsy, we can often provide a same-day biopsy.

If you had a screening or diagnostic mammogram at another facility, you can seek an additional assessment, biopsy, consultation or second opinion with our team of radiologists, surgeons and pathologists.

Our high-risk breast cancer program provides risk assessment and genetic testing for genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 so we can design follow-up and support care that is specific to your needs.

An advanced imaging technology that combines the benefits of high-resolution 3D mammography with functional imaging performed using a contrast agent. This form of mammography provides information about a tumor’s blood supply, which helps to improve breast cancer detection and imaging accuracy. This technology will allow women with dense breasts, personal or family history of breast cancer, genetic mutations, an abnormal mammogram result, concerning symptoms, or other conditions that increase breast cancer risk. The technology offers an advanced imaging alternative for women who cannot have breast MRI.

• Chemotherapy and Personalized Treatment: We study your breast cancer tumor to identify genetic mutations and learn about the molecular signals involved in your breast cancer’s growth. We use the results to match you with breast cancer therapies that will best target the biology of your breast cancer.
• Hormonal Therapy: If lab tests determine that your breast cancer tumor is estrogen-positive (ER+) or progesterone-positive (PR+), this breast cancer treatment option can be used to block your body's natural hormones from reaching any remaining breast cancer cells.

• Accelerated (Hypofractionated) Radiation Therapy: Eligible patients can receive a higher dose of radiation delivered over a shorter overall treatment course, reducing the number of weeks you need to come in for treatment.
• Brachytherapy: This treatment involves temporary or permanent implantation of radioactive substances to kill breast cancer cells.
• Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT): We take images of your breast cancer tumor before each treatment so we can customize the radiation to the breast cancer tumor’s size and shape as it shrinks and changes position, giving you only the dose you need and reducing exposure to noncancerous tissues.
• Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT): IMRT directs radiation of various intensities, shaped to the contours of a breast cancer tumor, from a variety of angles to destroy tumor tissue while sparing normal breast tissue as much as possible.
• Prone Radiation Therapy: This advanced breast cancer treatment allows us to direct radiation to the breast while sparing lung and heart tissue and reducing the risk of late-term side effects.

Our breast surgeons are nationally recognized experts with extensive experience in every type of breast cancer surgery.

• Lumpectomy: This breast-conserving surgery removes the portion of the breast that contains the cancer, and some surrounding normal tissue.   
• Mastectomy: The entire breast is removed, including all of the breast tissue. If both breasts are removed, this is called a double mastectomy.

Our breast reconstruction surgeons are skilled in the latest plastic and reconstructive surgery techniques, including breast implants and flap reconstruction procedures—groundbreaking breast reconstructive surgeries that require surgical expertise.