Borough Park
Kicking cancer
Maimonides Medical Center is leading the fight. Its team of specialists joined together to kick-off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a flag-raising outside the hospital’s main entrance.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this year more than 200,000 women in America will get breast cancer, and more than 40,000 women will die from the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The Maimonides Breast Cancer Center is leading the charge against breast cancer.
“It is extremely important for women to get annual screenings and mammograms, early detection is key in increasing the survival rate among breast cancer patients,” said Dr. Patrick Borgen, chairman of the Department of Surgery and director of the Maimonides Breast Cancer Program.
Maimonides is home to Brooklyn’s only fully accredited breast cancer center, as designated by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers administered by the American College of Surgeons.
The high-tech and eco-friendly facility fulfills the need for highly-specialized breast cancer services with LED lighting and energy efficient heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems, and a spa-like décor with interior landscaping that includes a waterfall feature and soothing music. Most importantly, the state-of-the-art technology including 3T MRI, three full-field digital mammography units, including tomosynthesis; Breast Specific Gamma Imaging unit; stereotactic breast biopsy unit; and three ultrasound units optimized for breast imaging and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy.
Maimonides Medical Center [4802 10th Ave. at 49th Street in Borough Park, (718) 765–2550].
