Breast Care team members at Lake Cumberland Imaging Center . Left to right : Ashley West RT ( R ), Angie Dowell RT ( R ), Jessica Simpson BSN , Savannah Freeman RVS .
Photo by Melissa Lancaster and sometimes even painful . She says compared to her own past experience , getting a mammogram today is so much more comfortable and effective .
Simpson agreed wholeheartedly and can attest that the team at Lake Cumberland Imaging Center works daily to ensure their patients have a warm , comfortable experience from beginning to end . Not only is the technology more detailed and comfortable , but there is now an added risk-assessment feature with each mammogram . Your mammographer will ask you a series of questions which are placed into a risk assessment calculator used to help the radiologist and your ordering physician assess your breast cancer risk . This added feature during each mammogram allows for better monitoring of a patient ' s breast health in the long run .
Hawthorne , Simpson and Smith all stress the importance of early detection which comes through having a regular yearly mammogram . Dr . Smith would add that having that mammogram done
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