MemorialCare Breast Center at Long Beach Medical Center Provides Personalized Care, Leading Technology in Screening & Treatment

According to the National Cancer Institute data, the breast cancer survival rate across all stages is about 90%. This is very encouraging data, but it doesn’t mean that the complexity of a breast cancer diagnosis should be discounted. Breast cancer awareness is needed year-round.

When diagnosed with breast cancer, it’s important to select a care team with diverse expertise and specialties. Many people don’t realize that beyond the radiologist who reads your mammograms and gives the diagnosis, and the oncologist who treats you — there is a multitude of specialists who are behind the scenes working on patients’ tailored treatments. At the MemorialCare Breast Center at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center, you can find all these specialists — surgeons, pathologists, geneticists, nurses and more — under one roof.

The Breast Center has full-service breast imaging capabilities, including 3D digital mammography, high-resolution breast ultrasound, breast MRI, biopsies, ductography, tumor localizations and bone densitometry.

A team of fellowship trained, subspecialized Breast Imaging radiologists interprets every exam. The radiologists only practice Breast Imaging and have decades of experience focused on this subspecialty, unlike other centers where radiologists may be more generalized.

Regular, annual screening mammography saves lives — it’s better to find something early before it reaches advanced stages. Should the need arise for breast cancer treatment, it’s important that patients are aligned with a breast center that is connected to leading cancer care.

The MemorialCare Breast Center partners with MemorialCare Todd Cancer Institute’s team of specialists who use the most advanced technologies and breakthrough therapies, offering women the best outcomes:

• AlignRTTM uses 3D stereo cameras to track the patient’s position with sub-millimeter accuracy, which is ideal for breast cancer patients to protect the adjacent critical organs such as the heart and lungs from radiation.

• Intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT) is used for early-stage breast cancer treatment, where a low energy therapeutic X-ray system delivers a concentrated dose of radiation therapy in the operating room to a tumor bed right after a lumpectomy — sparing the patient daily external beam radiation.

• SaviScout® is a wire-free radar localization system that uses radar for a zero-radiation and wire-free solution designed to aid surgeons in locating target tissue during a lumpectomy to +1mm of accuracy.

• Oncoplastic breast surgery combines breast surgical oncology with plastic surgery techniques to improve the aesthetic result of the breast following breast cancer surgery.

The MemorialCare Breast Centers are among the most comprehensive breast centers in Southern California. The caring and compassionate teams are solely dedicated to the prevention, early detection, and treatment of breast cancer. The MemorialCare Breast Centers have multidisciplinary teams of expert physicians, surgeons, technologists, and clinicians who ensure a comprehensive, coordinated approach to treating breast cancer. Whether a patient is visiting the MemorialCare Breast Center for a routine mammogram or has more urgent needs, the care team will help them maintain optimal breast health.

To learn more about the MemorialCare Breast Centers in Long Beach, visit memorialcare.org/lbbreast.