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About Us
Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center -- mammograms and much more
From the fluffy terry robes and the freshly brewed coffee, to the warm slippers and the cozy reading
room, Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center is a special place, where you will feel both nurtured and
well-informed. While you receive the highest quality care for the screening and diagnosis of
breast cancer and osteoporosis, you will also find the opportunity to explore other health
issues that concern you in our appealing reading room. Or, you can simply relax over a cup of
coffee or hot tea and a cookie while you wait for your screening. Our goal is to make your
mammogram or osteoporosis screening experience as comfortable as possible, and to help guide you
to the answers to your personal health questions.
Conveniently located for ease of access
Our newly designed state-of-the-art breast and osteoporosis screening services are conveniently
on the lower level of The Imaging Center, behind High Point Regional Hospital
in downtown High Point. A stand-alone facility, Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center features
its own entrance and parking. Our scheduling procedures are planned to minimize waiting time
and maximize one-on-one contact with our dedicated nurse/educator.
Range of Services
Routine screening mammography
The American Cancer Society recommends an annual mammogram after the age of forty, and sometimes testing
at an earlier age for those women with specific risk factors. At the Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center,
we provide expert mammography readings by dedicated breast imaging physicians. Our nurse/educator offers
personalized education about breast health and instruction on self-examination.
Accurate diagnosis and evaluation
Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center offers the latest diagnostic techniques and provides
timely, accurate evaluation of any breast problem. Should the results of a screening mammogram,
clinical breast examination or breast self-examination raise concern, additional imaging capabilities
such as diagnostic mammography and ultrasound are available, interpreted by highly trained
and experienced physicians.
Coordinated, individualized treatment options
Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center's team of experienced physicians, including surgeons,
oncologists, gynecologists, urologists, endocrinologist and radiologists, will share a complete
range of treatments for breast cancer and other breast disorders with you and your primary
care physician. Depending on the results of your diagnostic testing, they may discuss surgical
intervention, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy options.
Osteoporosis screening - a crucial preventive tool
Approximately 50% of women over the age of fifty have osteoporosis, which puts them at risk for
bone fracture. Unfortunately, many women with osteoporosis have no symptoms until a bone fracture occurs.
Piedmont Comprehensive Women's Center offers DEXA bone densitometry, a highly accurate method for
evaluating the health of your bones, and your risk for osteoporosis. A bone densitometry exam
measures your bone mineral density and compares it against a normal population of women who are
the same age, weight and ethnic background. Your physician can use this information to diagnose
your bone status and fracture risk, and decide if any treatment is necessary. Once therapy for
osteoporosis has begun, DEXA scans are used to follow the result of the treatment. Experts
believe that women should begin to have DEXA bone densitometry at about the same time they
begin to have mammograms.
Our health information library is a place to read or relax
Every woman worries about breast cancer, and many times, a host of other health issues. With
today's increasingly busy lifestyles, between caring for family, or working in or out of the home,
most women find it difficult to concentrate on their own health. That's why we've developed a health
library to serve as a valuable resource for you to collect materials about your personal areas of concern.
Whether you are wondering about menopause, weight management, stress control, heart disease,
or urinary incontinence, we offer current, medically-endorsed answers to your questions. With
the mountain of information available from television, newspapers and magazines, and even the internet,
it can be difficult to sort out the best advice among health facts that often contradict each other.
We want to make this process easier for you. You are invited to use the moments waiting for your screening
results browsing our selection of videos, books, and brochures about a wide range of women's health
issues. Our nurse/educator is available to answer your questions, or guide you through our resources. She
can recommend a specialist at your request, and even make an appointment for you if you wish.
Or you may simply decide to enjoy a hot cup of coffee and a freshly baked cookie while relaxing
during a small break in your busy day. Whatever your preference, it is our goal to make you
comfortable and exceed your expectations, based upon any previous health screening experiences you
may have had.
Where do we go from here?
Good things are happening in all areas of women's health due to increased awareness, funding
and research. Using the newest available techniques, doctors are able to diagnose cancers and
many other serious diseases earlier. Specifically, new advances are being made every day in the diagnosis
and treatment of breast cancer, giving us all hope for the future. At Piedmont Comprehensive
Women's Center, you have the opportunity to take an important step in managing your own health.
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