Take a Virtual Tour! Using iPIX™ photographic technology, you can take a first-hand look at a Mammography Unit or a Stereotactic Biopsy Unit at the Breast Center of Thompson Cancer Survival Center. Click on a photobubble below to begin your tour. Mammography Stereotactic Biopsy Unit Recommended browsers: Netscape Navigator v2.0 or higher, or Internet Explorer v3.0 or higher.   Thompson Breast Center Breast cancer is a disease that strikes one in every eight women in the United States. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women between the ages of 35 and 54. That statistic is alarming and increasing. As with most cancers, early detection of breast cancer is the best protection we can offer women. The Thompson Comprehensive Breast Center is one of the region's leading providers of breast health services, offering quality diagnostic and screening mammography, ultrasonography, and a variety of specialty programs not previously offered within our area. One such service is the Center's Multidisciplinary Breast Clinic. This clinic offers patients the option of private, individual consultations with their team of specialists. One single office visit; one single referral; one single afternoon; one single exam room. This enables specialists who are specifically focused and trained in breast disease to come together and map out a treatment plan that is right for the patient. Patients who visit the Breast Center receive instruction on breast self-examination, a physical breast examination, mammogram and breast health information. All findings are discussed with the patient and surgical consultation is available for women with abnormal findings. The Thompson Breast Center was the first facility in our area offering women an alternative biopsy procedure. The stereotactic core biopsy program began at the Breast Center in 1993 and gives women the option of having a nonsurgical, core biopsy to determine whether an abnormal finding is benign or malignant. Benefits of this outpatient procedure include less scarring, the use of a local versus a general anesthetic, and is about half the cost of a traditional surgical biopsy. Recently added to the Breast Center was the Image Checker M1000 by R2 Technology. This is a computer system which can correctly identify, with a high degree of accuracy, early breast cancer, thereby minimizing observational oversights. The ImageChecker is a detection system with image analysis that identifies and marks areas that may warrant closer examination by the radiologist, thereby reducing the number of false negative readings. Another recent addition is the ultrasound-guided mammotome. Traditionally, static (or still) pictures indicated the site where the physician would extract tissue during a biopsy. Now, with the ultrasound guided mammotome, the physician gets "real-time" ultrasound images. These "real-time" images assure recovery of an optimal tissue sample for accurate diagnosis. The procedure takes only one office visit and the patient barely feels a thing. If you have any questions about Thompson's Comprehensive Breast Center, please call (865) 541-1624. www.breastinfo.com Resource for patient information about breast health, brought to you by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., the makers of the Mammotome® Breast Biopsy System

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