The Comprehensive Breast Care Center at Providence is a state-of-the art facility staffed by expert physicians and staff in multiple specialties, all of whom are dedicated to the detection and treatment of breast cancer.

The Breast Care Center is one of our ministry’s Centers of Excellence, where multiple resources are made available to our patients in providing the most optimal course of treatment. Our patients are provided holistic care in a spiritually centered setting. Our emphasis is on timely evaluation of the problem, rapid diagnosis and the provision of the best options to women and men with breast disease.

Surgical Services (inpatient and outpatient)

Breast Cancer Surgery

Breast Biopsy (surgical excision of all or a portion of a suspicious lump for diagnostic purposes)
Breast Biopsy with Needle Localization (surgical excision of all or a portion of a suspicious lump that has been identified by a radiologist and marked with a flexible needle for location during surgery)
Breast Conservation Surgery (or lumpectomy; removal of only the lump and immediate surrounding tissue) Mastectomy with or without immediate Reconstruction (removal of the entire breast)
Sentinel Lymph Node Identification and Biopsy with Radioactive Isotope and Gamma Detection (identification of the primary lymph node(s) located in the axilla, or armpit, that drain(s) lymphatic fluid from the breast area; used for staging purposes)
Axillary Node Dissection (more extensive surgery to remove all lymph nodes in the armpit that drain the breast)

Reconstructive Surgery