Breast Care Center
Newman Regional Health opened the W.S. & E.C. Jones Breast Care Center in February 2012. The breast care center is dedicated to screening more women and reducing the personal tragedies associated with breast cancer. The center enables women to receive timely diagnosis of breast cancer, with the hope of decreasing mortality for women in Lyon County and surrounding areas.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women, exceeded only by lung cancer. In the United States, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes. Eighty percent of these women do not have any of the reported risk factors, other than being female and aging. Breast care is an essential part of your healthcare plan.
In Kansas, the female incidence of breast cancer and death caused by breast cancer are higher than in surrounding states. The key to surviving breast cancer is early diagnosis through regular screening mammograms, breast self-exams, and yearly exams by your personal physician. If detected early, the five-year breast cancer survival rate is 97%.
W.S. & E.C. Jones Breast Care Center Services
The W.S. & E.C. Jones Breast Care Center at Newman Regional Health enables patients to obtain preventive screening and diagnostic procedures, including advanced 3D Mammograms, in a comfortable environment from a multi-disciplinary team of caring professionals.
The team includes board-certified oncologists, radiologists, and surgeons supporting your personal physician, a mammography technologist and support personnel trained to support patients and their family members through the entire treatment process.
Along with digital mammography, other services include stereotactic breast biopsy, needle localizations, ultrasound, and bone density testing via DXA scans. Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas is committed to bringing patients the most advanced treatments and technology available. Technological advancements result in less invasive therapies and improve diagnostics.
Pink Ribbon Facility
Newman Regional Health is part of a group of facilities across the country raising the standard of care for every patient as a Pink Ribbon Facility. We take pride in providing every woman that comes to us for a mammogram with a digital mammography exam. Digital mammography images are easily stored and transferred electronically which aid the patient in their care and their search for a cure.
Services at the Breast Care Center
Need help paying for a breast cancer screening?
Newman Regional Health has established the Breast Care Screening Fund to assist patients with no insurance coverage and/or who are ineligible for Early Detection Works (EDW) funding.