Breast Imaging

Imaging Healthcare Specialists offers you several Women’s Imaging locations. Each Women’s Imaging center provides full-field digital mammography with computer-aided diagnosis. Unlike traditional mammography, digital mammography allows radiologists to manipulate the digital images, improving their ability to detect cancer in its early stages.

If you should need more than a mammogram, IHS also provides on-site breast MRI, ultrasound, and biopsy services. This ensures that any questionable findings are reviewed by a team of breast experts. Our full range of breast health services also includes ductography and pre-operative hookwire and sentinel node localization procedures. See all Women’s Imaging services.

Guidelines

Women should undergo an annual screening mammography beginning at age 40, or earlier for high-risk women. If you have specific symptoms, such as a lump or abnormal nipple discharge, your doctor may request advanced imaging tests. Younger women or lactating women who have a lump or other symptoms are generally better served by getting an ultrasound.

For women at high risk for breast cancer, based on their family or personal history, The American Cancer Society now recommends an annual breast MRI in addition to annual mammogram. If your calculated lifetime risk is over 15%, speak with your doctor about breast MRI.

How to Determine Your Risk

Several Web-based resources can help you assess your risk for breast cancer:

U.S. National Institutes of Health Gail Model

This is the most widely used method, but it will underestimate your risk if you have multiple family members with breast cancer and/or a family history of ovarian cancer.

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Center (NBOCC)

This government-sponsored resource provides the most complete risk assessment tool we have encountered anywhere. Australia's independent national authority and information source on breast cancer developed this tool, which takes into account full family history, ovarian cancer, and other factors.

National Breast Prevention.com

This is a privately sponsored site with a very friendly risk-management tool. However, it will also underestimate risk for women with family histories that include ovarian cancer.


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If you have a prescription for a breast imaging exam, call us at 866 558 4320 to schedule your exam.  If you are overdue for your screening mammogram, you can schedule your screening mammogram exam online, as long as you can provide us the name of your doctor.  If you are having breast symptoms, or think you have a lump, speak with your doctor immediately, before scheduling any imaging exam.