Mobile mammograms give women option during Breast Cancer Awareness Month

DAYTON — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and every Friday News Center 7 is sharing ways our community is supporting women in the fight against breast cancer.

Friday was National Mammography Day and you don’t always have to go to an office or hospital to get checked.

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News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott took a tour of a mobile mammogram bus that gives women an easier option to get checked.

“It’s much easier than trying to, you know, sit there on the phone and make that appointment,” said Tracy Short, Director Ambulatory, Imaging and Breast Centers.

It provides the same care as sitting in a hospital waiting room.

“It’s a little tighter,” said Short. “But the technology that’s in there is this same exact system that you’re gonna get if you go to one of our breast centers.”

The mobile mammograms have served over 13,000 patients and offer people the option of getting examined at their convenience and the equipment is standard of what you would find in the hospital.

“It does have 3D imaging, which is really important for detection of cancer,” Short said.

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McDermott said getting checked is as simple as going online to see where the bus will be.

“A quick you know, at this time this date looks good to me, this location,” said Short.

Businesses, organizations or just large groups can also reserve the on-the-go mammograms so employees, friends or loved ones can get checked.

“Get your mammogram and then come back and finish your work,” she said.

With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this bus has definitely been making its way around Montgomery County.

“It’s been everywhere this month,” Short told McDermott. “Which is always pretty nice.”

Mobile mammograms run six days of the week, 12 months out of the year.

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