SPL HEALTH
Baycare St. Anthony’s
Breast Center Offers High-Tech Diagnosis, Treatment PHOTOS/BAYCARE ST. ANTHONY’S
The Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center team is ready to help assist patients from screening and diagnosis to treatments, counselling and navigation. For more than a decade, the Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center at St. Anthony’s Hospital has been guided by a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing compassionate care in a full spectrum of clinical and support services to the community. Opened in 2007, the center has performed more than 150,000 imaging exams with nearly 2,100 breast cancers diagnosed and treated. Numerous technological advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of breast-related disease. St. Anthony’s has been at the forefront of utilizing those advancements to treat patients, including: • An ultrasound machine with advanced
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technology and resolution to greatly enhance ultrasound diagnostic accuracy. A key feature of the unit is called Elastography, which gives a non-invasive view into the presence or status of disease. The advanced features and resolution improves accuracy and facilitates the targeting of difficult lesions during procedures. • The center has installed two new mammography machines that have Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) capabilities. DBT is the latest technology that improves visualization of dense breast tissue, reduces the number of call-backs and reduces the number of false positives. DBT technology also is located at satellite imaging facilities at the Suncoast Medical Clinic and the BayCare Outpatient Center (Carillon) which increases access for the community.
