The Center for Breast Care at Creighton University Medical Center utilizes two state-of-the-art Hologic digital mammography machines. The center also operates a digital stereotactic machine for image-guided breast biopsies.

Mammography is a low dose X-ray that is used to take images of the breasts. Doctors use it to help detect and diagnose breast disease in women. Mammography can find changes in the breast up to two years before you or your physician can feel them. This means that breast cancer may be found in an earlier, more treatable stage.

The American Cancer Society recommends that women have a baseline screening mammogram between the ages of 35 and 40 and receive a mammogram once a year after age 40. Women at high risk should have mammograms more often.

Creighton University Medical Center offers appointments between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.