UVA Cancer Center Breast Care Program
The UVa Breast Care Program provides comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services that are both technically advanced and compassionate. They deliver exceptional patient and family care, comfort, support and education, based on a firm foundation of cutting edge research.
The Breast Care Program includes radiologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, pathologists, endocrinologists, geneticists, nurses and support staff who collaborate daily to provide women with coordinated and personalized care. This multidisciplinary team works to address the patients' concerns quickly, and to make their health care experience convenient and comfortable.
UVa offers the state's most advanced facility dedicated to breast health. The Breast Care Center brings the most advanced breast care services to one location. Virginia's only breast center combining surgery and breast imaging, the UVa Breast Center represents our commitment to breast health and the women in Virginia.
In addition to on site services, UVa has convenient screening mammography offered through its mobile mammography program. The Mobile Mammography Program was established as part of the Breast Care Program's effort to increase the number of Virginia women who receive screening mammograms. Breast imaging technology on the mobile unit is comparable to screenings performed at other UVa health system screening locations. For those without health insurance, the Breast Care Program is able to offer assistance to help cover the cost of the mammogram through funding from the Women's Four Miler.
Thanks in part to the Women's Four Miler, the UVa Breast Care Program recently launched a new program for women who are at high risk for breast and ovarian cancers. The UVa Cancer Center's High Risk Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program offers women, ages 18-70, a comprehensive program to assess risk and create a care plan specific to each woman's risk level.
Over the past several years, the Charlottesville Women's Four Miler has enabled the UVA Breast Care Program to offer programs and services that directly impact our patients. In addition to the screening mammograms and the high-risk breast and ovarian program, the Women's Four Miler has also provided funding for a Navigation Notebook and Self Help Book for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.
With generous funding from the 2006 Charlottesville Women's Four Miler, the Breast Care Program had the opportunity to fund 5 new projects this year designed to improve patient care:
- A breast cancer care kit for newly diagnosed patients
- A study to determine if a special bra can help prevent and control swelling after breast surgery
- A study to help reduce swelling after breast surgery using special adhesive tape
- A study to determine how physicians and nurses can help breast patients better understand the goals of chemotherapy
- Funding to increase enrollment in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program/ Every Woman's Life Program
For more information, please visit the UVA Cancer Center Breast Care Program website.
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