Breast Health | East Jordan Family Health Center https://ejfhc.org Our Mission is Your Health Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:17:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://ejfhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-foot_logo-1-32x32.png Breast Health | East Jordan Family Health Center https://ejfhc.org 32 32 EJFHC Mammo Tech visits Good Day Northern Mi https://ejfhc.org/announcements/ejfhc-mammo-tech-visits-good-day-northern-mi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ejfhc-mammo-tech-visits-good-day-northern-mi Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:17:30 +0000 https://ejfhc.org/?p=513593 EJFHC Mammo Tech visits Good Day Northern Mi ,East Jordan Family Health Center

Shannon Notestine, Mammography Technologist at the East Jordan Family Health Center, joined Good Day Northern Michigan on 9&10 News on October 22 to discuss the importance of screening mammograms and how 3D mammography helps detect breast changes earlier and more accurately. 🎥 Watch the full segment here: Good Day Northern Michigan – October 21, 2025

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Shannon Notestine, Mammography Technologist at the East Jordan Family Health Center, joined Good Day Northern Michigan on 9&10 News on October 22 to discuss the importance of screening mammograms and how 3D mammography helps detect breast changes earlier and more accurately.

🎥 Watch the full segment here: Good Day Northern Michigan – October 21, 2025

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What should I know about radiation safety? Before your imaging procedure be sure to ask your physician the following questions: Why is the test needed? How will having the test improve my care? Are there alternatives that do not use radiation and deliver similar results? Is the facility accredited by the American College of Radiology […]

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What should I know about radiation safety?
Before your imaging procedure be sure to ask your physician the following questions:

  • Why is the test needed?
  • How will having the test improve my care?
  • Are there alternatives that do not use radiation and deliver similar results?
  • Is the facility accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR)?
  • Are pediatric and adult tests delivered using the appropriate radiation doses?

Why should I have my imaging exam done at an accredited facility?
When you see the gold seals of accreditation prominently displayed in our imaging facility, you can be sure that you are in a facility that meets standards for imaging quality and safety. Look for the ACR Gold Seals of Accreditation.

To achieve the ACR Gold Standard of Accreditation, our facility’s personnel qualifications, equipment requirements, quality assurance, and quality control procedures have gone through a rigorous review process and have met specific qualifications. It’s important for patients to know that every aspect of the ACR accreditation process is overseen by board-certified, expert radiologists and medical physicists in advanced diagnostic imaging.

What does ACR accreditation mean?

  • Our facility has voluntarily gone through a vigorous review process to ensure that we meet nationally-accepted standards of care.
  • Our personnel are well qualified, through education and certification, to perform medical imaging, interpret your images, and administer your radiation therapy treatments.
  • Our equipment is appropriate for the test or treatment you will receive, and our facility meets or exceeds quality assurance and safety guidelines.

What does the gold seal mean?
When you see the ACR gold seal, you can rest assured that your prescribed imaging test will be done at a facility that has met the highest level of imaging quality and radiation safety. The facility and its personnel have gone through a comprehensive review to earn accreditation status by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the largest and oldest imaging accrediting body in the U.S. and a professional organization of 34,000 physicians.

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from Health Department of Northwest Michigan Take time to educate, participate, and encourage yourself and others Each year, October brings breast cancer front and center. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it provides opportunities to promote screenings and the warning signs of this life-threatening disease. In addition, the Health Department of Northwest Michigan (HDNW) and the […]

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from Health Department of Northwest Michigan

Take time to educate, participate, and encourage yourself and others

Each year, October brings breast cancer front and center. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it provides opportunities to promote screenings and the warning signs of this life-threatening disease. In addition, the Health Department of Northwest Michigan (HDNW) and the Northern Michigan Public Health Alliance recognize Oct. 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day and Oct. 17-23 as Men’s Breast Cancer Awareness Week.

So, get out your pink, show your support by attending local events, and schedule those screenings.

Did you know that:

  • One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. According to the Susan G. Komen organization, one woman is diagnosed every two minutes in the U.S.
  • The two most common risk factors of breast cancer are being born a female and getting older.
  • In 2022, an estimated 44,000 people in America died from breast cancer.

HDNW helps women—and men—be proactive in fighting breast cancer through education, awareness, and screenings.

“Our Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Navigation Program (BC3NP) provides low-income women access to mammograms and pap tests, both of which are critical screenings,” says Melissa Hahn, HDNW Director of Family Health. “If a woman is diagnosed, we will also work to help them qualify for a special Medicaid program through BC3NP to help with the costs of treatment.”

The program covers pap smears for women 21 to 64, mammograms for women 40-64, and MRIs based on personal and family risk. Over 75 services are provided through BC3NP, including:

  • Diagnostic mammograms,
  • Ultrasounds, and
  • Breast biopsies.

“We are fortunate to be able to offer this program to area residents,” says HDNW Nurse Practitioner Jordan Wyeth, who has personally celebrated cancer-free status with women diagnosed with breast cancer in early stages at the health department. “Early detection and effective treatment are critical life-saving steps that we can all take and encourage.”

To see if you qualify for BC3NP or a type of insurance that can help cover screenings, call the local HDNW staff at 800-432-4121. To learn more about the symptoms of breast cancer, go to https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/symptoms.htm.

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Now Offering State-of-the-Art Genius™ 3D Mammography™ Exams from Hologic

Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exams are clinically proven to be superior to conventional 2D exams1-

Bellaire and East Jordan Family Health Centers are excited to offer Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exams, developed  by Hologic, Inc., a worldwide leader in Women’s Health. [i] Utilizing advanced breast tomosynthesis technology, Genius exams are clinically proven to significantly increase the detection of breast cancers, and also decreasing the number of women asked to return for additional testing.1-7

In conventional 2D Mammography, overlapping tissue is a leading reason why small breast cancers may be missed and normal tissue may appear abnormal, leading to unnecessary callbacks. A Genius exam includes a three-dimensional method of imaging that can greatly reduce the tissue overlap effect.

A Genius exam includes both 2D images and tomosynthesis scans. During the tomosynthesis-DIMENSIONAL portion of the exam, an X-ray arm sweeps in a slight arc over the breast, taking multiple images. A computer then converts the images into a stack of thin layers, allowing the radiologist to review the breast tissue one layer at a time. A Genius exam requires no additional compression and takes just a few seconds longer than a conventional 2D breast cancer screening exam.

Our Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exam, available on the 3Dimensions™ and Selenia® Dimensions® systems from Hologic, are revolutionizing how breast cancer is detected by providing a better option for women of all breast densities compared to 2D alone.1-2  Researchers have found that:

      • The Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exam finds 20-65% more invasive breast cancers compared to 2D alone, an average increase of 41%.3
      • Only the Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exam is FDA approved as superior for women with dense breasts compared to 2D alone.1-2
      • The Genius™ 3D Mammography™ exam reduces callbacks by up to 40% compared to 2D alone.2,4

East Jordan Family Health Center is committed to the fight against breast cancer.

In offering the Genius exam, we provide a more accurate tool for breast cancer screening.1-7

 

 

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Schedule Your Genius 3D Mammography™ exam

If you would like to schedule a Genius 3D Mammography™ exam, or have questions about this important breast health procedure, please call our offices at:

Bellaire: 231-533-8649
East Jordan: 231-536-2206

About Genius™ 3D Mammography™ Exams

The breast is a three-dimensional object composed of different structures located at different heights within the breast. These structures can overlap and cause confusion when viewed as a flat two-dimensional image. This confusion of overlapping of tissue is a leading reason why small breast cancers may be missed and normal tissue may appear abnormal, leading to unnecessary callbacks. Using breast tomosynthesis technology, the Hologic system creates a 3-dimensional image of the breast structure, which enables radiologists to more clearly see through overlapping tissue to detect cancers, often at an earlier stage.

The Hologic system is the first FDA-approved breast tomosynthesis system in the U.S. Hologic Genius 3D Mammography™ exams are now available in all 50 states and over 50 countries. To date, more than 8 million women have been screened with this advanced screening system.

The Genius™ 3D Mammography™ (a.k.a. Genius™ exam) is acquired on the Hologic® 3D Mammography™ system and consists of a 2D and 3D™ image set, where the 2D image can be either an acquired 2D image or a 2D image generated from the 3D™ image set. The Genius™ exam is only available on the Hologic 3D Mammography™ system.

References:

1) FDA submissions P080003, P080003/S001, P080003/S004, P080003/S005

2) Friedewald SM, Rafferty EA, Rose SL, et al. Breast cancer screening using tomosynthesis in combination with digital mammography. JAMA. 2014 Jun 25;311(24):2499-507.

3) Results from Friedewald, SM, et al. “Breast cancer screening using tomosynthesis in combination with digital mammography.” JAMA 311.24 (2014): 2499 2507; a multi-site (13), non-randomized, historical control study of 454,000 screening mammograms investigating the initial impact the introduction of the Hologic Selenia® Dimensions ® on screening outcomes. Individual results may vary. The study found an average 41% (95% CI: 20-65%) increase and that 1.2 (95% CI: 0.8-1.6) additional invasive breast cancers per 1000 screening exams were found in women receiving combined 2D FFDM and 3D™ mammograms acquired with the Hologic 3D Mammography™ System versus women receiving 2D FFDM mammograms only.

4) Bernardi D, Macaskill P, Pellegrini M, et. al. Breast cancer screening with tomosynthesis (3D mammography) with acquired or synthetic 2D mammography compared with 2D mammography alone (STORM-2): a population-based prospective study. Lancet Oncol. 2016 Aug;17(8):1105-13.

5) Bernardi D, Macaskill P, Pellegrini M, et. al. Breast cancer screening with tomosynthesis(3D mammography) with acquired or synthetic 2D mammography compared with 2D mammography alone (STORM-2): a population-based prospective study. Lancet Oncol. 2016 Aug;17(8):1105-13.

6) McDonald ES, Oustimov A, Weinstein SP, et al. Effectiveness of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Compared With Digital Mammography: Outcomes Analysis From 3 Years of Breast Cancer Screening. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Jun 1;2(6):737-43.

7) Rafferty EA, Durand MA, Conant EF, et al Breast Cancer Screening Using Tomosynthesis and Digital Mammography in Dense and Nondense Breasts. JAMA. 2016 Apr 26;315(16):1784-6.

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Every Woman. Every Year. The Michigan BCCCNP can help an eligible woman, aged 40-64*, get breast and cervical screening services yearly whether she has insurance or not. We provide navigation services to help her receive the screening, follow-up care for an abnormal test result, and/or treatment if a breast or cervical cancer is diagnosed.

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(in partnership with Health Department of Northwest Michigan)

Every Woman. Every Year. The Michigan BCCCNP can help an eligible woman, aged 40-64*, get breast and cervical screening services yearly whether she has insurance or not. We provide navigation services to help her receive the screening, follow-up care for an abnormal test result, and/or treatment if a breast or cervical cancer is diagnosed.

Income eligible guidelines:

  • $31,900/year for 1 person
  • $43,100/year for family of 2
  • $54,300/year for family of 3
  • $65,500/year for family of 4
  • $76,700/year for family of 5

Add $11,200 per each additional family member

If a woman, aged 40-64*, is uninsured, a navigator will enroll her in our program and arrange for her to receive these services as indicated:

  • Clinical Breast Exam
  • Screening Mammogram
  • Pap Test
  • Pelvic Exam
  • Diagnostic Services specific to breast and/or cervical cancer

If a woman has insurance, but has a high deductible that must be paid before receiving services or the insurance doesn’t completely cover the follow-up care, our navigators can provide help in paying for these follow-up exams:

  • Consultation visit with a Breast Surgeon or OB/Gyn doctor
  • Diagnostic mammogram, extra views, breast ultrasounds, MRI
  • Breast biopsy or aspiration
  • Colposcopy with cervical biopsy

If a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer or cervical cancer (or a pre-cancerous cervical condition), the woman is eligible for Medicaid through the Medicaid Treatment Act. For further information contact the Healther Center’s Community Health Worker at 231-536-2206 ext 125 (East Jordan) or 231-533-8649 ext 617 (Bellaire).

*Women under 40 with identified breast or cervical abnormalities may also be eligible.

Links

 

Mammography Questionnaires

BCCCNP Enrollment Form
BCCCNP Enrollment Form (Spanish)
BCCCNP Consent Form
BCCCNP Consent Form (Spanish)

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