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In just 4

seconds
it detects
41% more
invasive breast

breakthrough technologycancers*.
3-D Mammography

Studies of nearly images are flat, like With many convenient
500,000 women show looking at a book locations across
a 3-D mammography cover and have been the region, it’s easy
exam is a better way shown to miss up to to schedule your
to screen for breast 20 percent of early appointment.
cancer than traditional cancers. But 3-D • Akron
2-D exams alone.1-2 mammograms let • Barberton
you see all of the • Cuyahoga
Summa Health is the 3-D mammography book’s pages.
only hospital in the region lets your doctor Falls
to offer 3-D mammography for examine breast tissue The result is earlier • Green
both screening and diagnostic layer by layer, detail detection of potential • Hudson
exams at all locations. by detail, to better breast cancers and • Medina
distinguish invasive fewer callbacks for • Wadsworth
Schedule your 3-D mammogram cancers, especially false positives. • White Pond
today at 888.859.8870 if you have dense
breast tissue. 2-D 1. Journal of the American Medical Association June 2014.
2. breastcancer.org.

*Versus 2-D mammography alone.

Cancer support available Groups are available in Akron, Barberton and Medina.
Visit summahealth.org/cancersupport to learn more.

For information about the Breast MDC Is your cancer treatment
or to schedule an appointment or plan the best it can be?
second opinion, please call our Breast
Care Coordinator at 330.375.3717. Summa Health’s Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic (MDC) caring team
of cancer experts will design a coordinated, comprehensive and
Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic personalized plan of care for you using nationally recognized best
Jean & Milton Cooper Pavilion practice guidelines.
161 N. Forge St, Ground Floor,
Suite G90, Akron, OH 44304 Why choose our Multidisciplinary Clinic?

Collaborative Real time, Improved Active patient All needs
treatment planning team-based survival involvement supported

format offering
holistic

care

Less anxiety, more Individualized Access to Expedited
empowerment plan of care clinical trials cancer care

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