Since 1973, RAO has been dedicated to promoting and protecting health and quality of life through preventative screening exams and next-level diagnostic testing. Because women have specific healthcare needs, RAO established Women’s Imaging Center (WIC), the region’s first and only comprehensive, full-service center dedicated to women’s diagnostic services.
For decades, wire localization has been the preferred method for radiologists to mark a non-palpable tumor identified on a mammogram and/or breast ultrasound. In this procedure, wire markers are used to guide a surgeon to the tumor so they may perform breast-conserving therapy (BCT) such as a lumpectomy to remove a tumor while preserving healthy breast tissue, instead of removing the entire breast (mastectomy).
As the region’s only comprehensive women’s diagnostic services provider, RAO has replaced all 2D mammography equipment with FDA-approved 3D mammography, also known as tomosynthesis. Women naturally have questions about the difference, and we’re happy to explain the superiority of 3D mammography so you can feel confident about scheduling your routine breast cancer screening.
RAO’s Women’s Imaging Center (WIC) and TimberRidge Imaging Center want to remind women to maintain a “Rosie” outlook on a riveting subject: early breast cancer detection. Most people know of the importance of finding breast cancer early, when it is most easily and successfully treated. But many don’t know about some of the more sophisticated technologies that arm our dedicated faction of breast imaging subspecialists.
