Advanced Treatment Options
Working as a team, The Breast Center's caring experts utilize the most
advanced therapies available to treat breast cancer and to preserve healthy
breast tissue.
These treatments include:
- Lumpectomy
- Mastectomy, traditional and Nipple-Areola sparing surgery
- Oncoplastic Surgery, which preserves the breast’s appearance by reshaping
breast tissue during cancer surgery
- Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection, which often eliminates the need to remove
deeper lymph nodes
- Hormone therapy, which can be used in many aspects of breast cancer treatment,
including: initial risk reduction, minimizing the cancer’s risk
of recurrence, and preventing the cancer from spreading to other areas
of the body
- MarginProbe Margin Analysis, which enables surgeons to optimize the removal
of cancer during breast conservation surgery or lumpectomies
- Large Format Pathology, which gives the pathologist a unique view of the
entire cancer on a single slide, making diagnosis of margins more accurate
- Axillary reverse lymphatic mapping (ARM), which preserves the lymphatic
drainage of the arm during surgery, decreasing the risk of developing
lymphedema
- Intraoperative Digital Specimen x-ray (Bioptics machine), shows surgeons
images of the tissue removed in less than a minute, which enables them
to remove all of the cancer in just one operation
- Genomic Testing
- Chemotherapy, including the only dedicated, inpatient oncology unit in
the region
- External Beam Radiation Therapy, used after lumpectomy
- Partial breast radiation delivered by an implanted device, which delivers
radiation to the tumor site from inside the breast through a small catheter,
rather than from an external beam
- Survivorship Training and Rehab (STAR), services are available before,
during, and after treatment in efforts to assist in getting cancer patients
and survivors back to their daily routines