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Don’t Wait
Get Your Mammogram Safely With Memorial
As someone with a family history of breast Our leading-edge 3D mammography
cancer, and as a member of the South Broward technology and our “one-stop shop,” 3D
Hospital District Board of Commissioners Stereotactic Tomosynthesis Breast Biopsy
that oversees Memorial Healthcare System, System mean that patients no longer need
I am typically busy in October — National to schedule follow-ups and wait days for
Breast Cancer Awareness Month — helping results. Our highly experienced team of
to spread the word about breast cancer and specialized radiologists is dedicated to reading
the importance of breast self-awareness and only mammograms and breast imaging.
getting screened. Our outstanding team of medical, surgical
and radiation oncologists helps identify
While breast cancer awareness activities individualized treatment options for each
look different again this year, early detection patient. Through our Office of Human Research,
is as important as ever. As the pandemic Memorial strives to offer each patient who
continues, I encourage you to be vigilant. Your would like it the opportunity to participate
mammogram should not wait. Screenings are in a potentially groundbreaking research study
safe at Memorial Healthcare System thanks or clinical trial.
to the COVID-19 vaccine and continuing the
extra safety precautions that were put in And it’s all here in South Florida. Thanks to
place, including: COVID-19 screenings, physical the resources of Memorial Healthcare System,
distancing, enhanced cleaning and disinfecting, you don’t need to go anywhere else to access
appointment spacing, personal protective outstanding breast cancer diagnostic care,
equipment and face masks required for everyone. treatment and support services. It’s safe and
it’s in our own backyard.
Each year, more than 300,000 women — one
in eight in the U.S. — will be diagnosed with For more information on Memorial
breast cancer, and nearly 3,000 men will, too. Cancer Institute, call 954-265-4325 (HEAL)
The good news for all of us in South Florida is or to schedule a 3D mammogram, visit
that Memorial Healthcare System and Memorial MHS.net/Mammogram.
Cancer Institute offer the kinds of diagnostic
services that make early detection of breast
cancer easier. LAURA RAYBIN MILLER
Commissioner
Coming in 2023 is a new freestanding Cancer South Broward Hospital District d.b.a.
Memorial Healthcare System
Institute on the campus of Memorial Hospital
West. We will have an entire floor exclusively
devoted to breast oncology and will offer
patients all the services they need under one
roof, from diagnosis through treatment to
survivorship. This approach works together with
the wide range of rehabilitation and supportive
care Memorial provides to help patients be
stronger against breast cancer.
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