Navy volunteers at Brunswick, Maine, are working side by side with teachers at four schools and a youth organization to teach Standing Tall. Pensacola supports 15 classrooms and Norfolk 52, with two schools choosing to implement Standing Tall in all their classrooms. Bethesda, Md., recently to help ease the evaluation and treatment process of incoming breast cancer patients. PSRs check in patients for appointments and make sure they are relaxed and get their questions answered. NCMs help lay out the clinical path women must follow.
Examination rooms have light-colored walls, plants and private dressing rooms.
There is a patient library available with video tapes on breast cancer and a computer with internet access to the National Cancer Institute, other medical experts and a directory of personal support groups. Examinations, mammograms and consultations are all combined into one visit. Now, all these appointments can be accomplished in one morning at the Breast Care Center. Digital mammography will be available to patients next year. This technology can detect tumors in the dense tissue of younger women.