3D mammography rolls into the Twin Tiers
A community hospital in Western New York has gone all in with digital breast tomosynthesis, prompting a local TV station to explain the technology while cheering the technology upgrade.
The investment will help find cancers “when they’re at their smallest size, when they’re the most treatable and the most curable,” radiologist Geneva Ballard, MD, of the Guthrie health system tells Elmira-based WETM 18 News. “That’s when we can really do the most good for our patients.”
The tomo installation is at 74-bed Guthrie Corning Hospital, which serves a swath of the “Twin Tiers” region encompassing north central Pennsylvania and south central New York.
Reporter Michelle Ross notes the dovetailing of the improvement with Gov. Andre Cuomo’s signing of state legislation requiring all New York insurers to cover all screening and diagnostic imaging exams for the detection of breast cancer.
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Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.