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SPOTLIGHT ON: St. MAry MedicAl center

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Better View

3-D mammography offers a better chance of diagnosing
breast cancer earlier, when it is most treatable
"

W

e think we see something."
With her thick Southern drawl
still discernible after 40 years in
the region, Valparaiso resident
Teresa Linzy recalls the words she heard more than
a year ago that shook her world.
"It was just a routine mammogram," recalls Linzy.
"I'd been getting them for years, but this time, I went
to the new Valparaiso Health Center. It was convenient and they had the new 3-D technology, but I still
didn't expect them to find anything."
But this time they found something: a suspicious
lesion in her right breast, back near the sternum.
"They may not have found it with conventional mammography," she says. "It was deep and covered up by
layers of breast tissue."
What followed was a whirlwind. Linzy had a breast
ultrasound that same day and soon underwent a stereotactic breast biopsy at St. Mary Medical Center.

by Mary Fetsch

When those results confirmed the
presence of cancer, she was immediately able to see surgeon Richard
Browne, MD, to discuss her options.
Within a few weeks of hearing those
first words of concern, Linzy had
the results of her breast MRI and
lumpectomy and learned the full
extent of her condition.
"Dr. Browne spent so much time
Teresa Linzy
with me, explaining what type of
cancer I had, what my options were, and what the
road ahead would be like," says Linzy. "I learned I
didn't have just one lesion in my left breast; it was
all throughout my right breast as well. It was still
located within the chest wall, so the extent was only
detectable through a breast MRI. After a lot of contemplation, I decided to have a double mastectomy."

Step by Step
"What we found with Teresa in that initial mammogram turned out to be the tip of the iceberg,"

In a "conventional" 2-D mammogram there appears to be an
area of concern that the doctor may want to further investigate
with another mammogram or a biopsy. Looking at the same
breast tissue in 3-D "breast tomosynthesis" image slices, the
doctor can now see that the tissue is in fact normal breast
tissue that was overlapping in the 2-D mammogram creating
the illusion of an abnormal area. Thanks to 3-D technology, this
patient likely avoided a callback for an additional mammogram.

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Contents
Community Message
Community Briefs
Making the Grade
Stroke Survivors
Stress SOS
The Truth About Sunscreen
The Transformers
Get Your Head in the Game
The Journey Continues
On the Cover
The Foot Follies
Friendly Fat
Virtual Health
What’s New?
SPOTLIGHT ON: Community Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Catherine Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Mary Medical Center
Finding the Silver Lining
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Vim & Vigor - Summer 2014 - Community Healthcare - Community Briefs
Vim & Vigor - Summer 2014 - Community Healthcare - Making the Grade
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