MAMMOGRAPHY is a diagnostic imaging tool used to screen breasts for breast cancer utilizing low doses of radiation.

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Using three-dimensional technology, taking several images of the breast at multiple angles, creating “slices” of breast tissue, radiologists can better detect breast cancer deep within the tissue, where as during a traditional two-dimensional mammogram it might be hidden. Patients with dense breasts will have a better chance of early detection and fewer patients will have to return for second mammograms with 3D Mammography.

BREAST CANCER FACTS

Who Should Be Screened?

Women between 40 and 44

• Have first mammogram done.

Women 45 to 54

• Get mammograms every year.

Women 55 and older

• Mammogram Yearly or Biannually

• Continued screening until no longer recommended by primary care physician

Average-Risk Women

• In the United States, one in eight women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.

Who Can Get Breast Cancer?

• Anyone who has breast tissue male or female. 
• 85% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of breast cancer.

Ways to Lower Your Risk

• Get to and stay at a healthy weight.
• Be Physically Active
• Stop smoking
• Drink less alcohol

Our facility is ACR certified and MQSA compliant. Screening Mammograms are offered Monday – Friday.

Call today to schedule your annual Mammogram at:
Weston County Health Services
307-746-3704

No Physician order needed, just a primary care provider on file.