- The hospital that the Ribera health group has in Ferrol remodels and expands the Radiology area and is committed to a technology that allows detecting much smaller lesions and advancing in the prevention of breast cancer
- In addition, it has carried out a reconditioning of the Pediatrics waiting room, with the aim of turning it into a cheerful, dynamic and bright space for children who attend the center's consultations, within its Humanization Plan
Hospital Riverside Juan Cardona continues to remodel and expand its facilities, launching new consultations and adding technology, to offer comprehensive health care of the highest quality to the citizens of the Ferrol area. The last outstanding intervention consists of the installation of a direct digital mammography with tomosynthesis. The one that the hospital had up to now was a lower quality CR mammograph and, with the current one, diagnostic accuracy is greatly improved, to detect lesions in a woman's breasts safely, easily and quickly.
As explained by Dr. Julia Camps, corporate head of the Breast Area of the health group Ribera, the mammograph that has been installed in the Ribera Juan Cardona hospital is a mammograph state-of-the-art, “perfectly diagnostic” and that, in addition, reduces the dose of radiation applied. With it, he says, "radiologists gain image resolution, which makes it possible to detect much smaller lesions and go a long way in the prevention of breast cancer." Mammography consists of a diagnostic X-ray exploration of the mammary gland, which shows with high resolution the internal fibroepithelial structures of the breast. It is the main diagnostic procedure for breast cancer.
In addition, as Dr. Camps explains, the fact that the new mammograph is 3D "allows us to perform tomosynthesis biopsies, a type of test that is much faster than conventional stereotaxy-guided biopsies." When a suspicion of a malignant lesion is detected, adds the head of the Breast Department, "this type of diagnostic test is prioritized to reduce uncertainty while waiting."
Early detection of breast cancer significantly reduces the mortality rate in patients. Professionals recommend that women start having mammograms from the age of 45, or even earlier, if they are considered risk patients due to family history or specific genetic studies, among others.
In order to install this new mammograph, it has been necessary to carry out remodeling works in the space where the previous mammograph was located and, in addition, the space for radiologists to evaluate the images of the patients has been expanded, which will now have two reporting rooms perfectly conditioned and equipped with the necessary technology.
Links of interest:
Grupo Ribera podcast on breast cancer
Video Ribera Group Breast Area
Video Life Testimonials: patients with breast cancer
