Central Florida Health Care has announced it will be providing in-house mammograms at their Lake Wales and Davenport health centers. With October widely recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this new development is perfectly timed to give patients access to critical breast cancer screening tools.
“Mammograms are the best tool we have to detect early breast cancer,” explains Jennifer Sapp, a Women’s Health APRN at Central Florida Health Care’s Wauchula Health Center. “Detecting early cancer is the best way to manage, treat, and survive breast cancer.”
A mammogram is imaging of the breast with X-rays to screen for breast cancer or for other diagnostic purposes. The process uses a specialized machine called a mammography machine that uses X-rays to image the breast tissue. A mammogram may be performed if a patient presents symptoms that may signal cancer, such as changes in texture or appearance, which can be found during a regular self-exam…