Mammography Services
Mercy offers digital mammography. From the patient’s point of view, a digital mammogram is performed just like a traditional film screen mammography. Both use low-level x-ray to generate images of the breasts. The differences between film and digital mammography are similar to those between film and digital photography. Film mammography produces and stores an image of the breast on film. In digital mammography, a computer creates and stores that image. This means radiologists can enhance, magnify, or otherwise manipulate the image in order to make a more accurate diagnosis. The resulting digital images are immediately available to the radiologist for diagnosis on Mercy’s Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
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Breast Ultrasound
Using sound waves to produce an image, today's advanced equipment can image all soft tissue organs in the body, as well as veins and arteries, in a safe and painless procedure. Mercy's Accredited Vascular Laboratory works closely with Breast Care Specialists of Maine and Mercy's Mammography Centers to provide patients with the most complete array of care possible.
BRCA Genetic Testing
Stereotactic Biopsy with Suros ATEC vacuum assisted biopsy unit
.A minimally invasive unit that uses computers to help physicians locate and remove suspicious breast tissue seen on a mammogram for tissue analysis without surgery.
Breast MRI
OncotypeDx®
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLN)
This relatively new technique can more accurately pinpoint microscopic cancer cells and potentially spot one tumor cell among one million cells. With improved diagnostic accuracy, fewer lymph nodes may need to be removed, which in turn means avoiding the sometimes-lengthy rehabilitation process. Also, the chance of chronic swelling, or lymphedema is reduced when fewer nodes are removed.