A multidisciplinary team of physicians is available to meet with patients to discuss treatment options and other important issues, if needed. The best protection against breast cancer is early detection. But many women are confused about mammograms and related issues. The American Cancer Society recommends a baseline mammogram at age 40, followed by a mammogram every one or two years between 40 and 50, and an annual mammogram after age 50. In this case, she should begin having mammograms 10 years before the age that her relative developed cancer.
Women have a right to prompt test results.
At the UCI Breast Health Center, a woman who s concerned about symptoms can undergo an evaluation in the morning and have the results by the afternoon. This includes the results of fine-needle aspiration, a test to detect cancer cells in fluid withdrawn from a growth. The outcome of ultrasound image-guided and stereotactic biopsies more definitive tests for breast cancer are available within 48 hours. Non-emergency, or routine, mammography results are reported in two to three working days. At the UCI Breast Health Center, only the most advanced mammography and ultrasound equipment is used.