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Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

HerScan Doing More in the Fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology.

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Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

Breast Cancer Ultrasound Screening - HerScan.com

HerScan Doing More in the Fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology.

HerScan Doing More in the Fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology.

HerScan Doing More in the Fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology.

HerScan Doing More in the Fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology.

MaryJo Henderson
MaryJo Henderson
MaryJo Henderson
MaryJo Henderson
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Largo, United States
$345 USD 7 backers
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Overview
The use of Ultrasound Technology significantly increases the detection of breast cancer rates from approximately 47% to 98% than with Mammography alone. (Berg 2012) This program delivers much needed access to breast screening using the latest, state of the art ultrasound technology provided by highly experienced Breast RDMS Sonographers and Board Certified Breast Radiologists. The HerScan program is helping women do more for their breast health.

A message from Mary Jo Henderson, Founder of HerScan: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L04ItUnH6G4

The money raised will be used to place 6 more mobile medical teams and clinics in newly opened states.
1.Acquire 5 vans and 1 HerScan Community Coach for medical testing and education.
2. Purchase 6 ultrasound machine.
3.Add phase 2 of tele radiology system to provide significant cost saving of mailing test results to radiologists and customers, thereby improving customer reporting with online access to personal protected portals in order to obtain their test results.
4. Additional staffing for medical teams and office management.
5. Obtain PR firm to continue the strong branding of the HerScan brand. As well as add to our new product announcements.
6. Increase our social media marketing platforms to our existing 20,000 customer database.

Joan Lunden on her blog "Joan's Blog" wrote ,"The HerScan program makes it easy for women to DO MORE for their breast health regimen toward the prevention and early detection of Breast Cancer."

Doing More in the fight against Breast Cancer with Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology

Easy Access to Ultrasound Technology has been challenging and is an important issue facing women today. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide.( WHO)

Studies confirm that mammography misses every other cancer in dense breasts. (AreYouDense.org) The problem is nearly half the female population in this country have dense breast tissue.

Early detection is everything in the fight against Breast Cancer.

Mammography is recognized as the best preventative screening tool to image the breast, but falls short when imaging women with dense breasts as its imaging technique cannot see well through dense breast tissue. Cancer shows up in white in mammography and so does dense breast tissue. (It’s like trying to find a snow ball in a snowstorm.)

Ultrasound technology is an excellent tool to image the Breast and can see cancers that cannot be seen on a mammogram. An ultrasound images all the way to the chest wall.

While insurance companies can make it difficult to have access to Ultrasound; that is unless something is seen on a Mammography screening, and mammography misses every other cancer in women with dense breast, (Berg,et al) women can’t get access to Ultrasound easily.

A Florida based company, HerScan, Inc. and the HerScan program make it easy for women to have access to important Ultrasound whole breast screenings, enabling women to DO MORE for their breast health regimen toward the prevention and early detection of Breast Cancer.

The HerScan mobile medical clinics are being offered throughout several states, Monday - Saturday and are expanding services to provide important access to powerful state-of-the-art Ultrasound technology, using Board Certified Radiologists, and highly experienced RDMS Breast specialized Sonographers, with a program that helps save lives.

Educational materials are provided at each HerScan Health Event, helping women learn about dense breast tissue and the importance of asking their doctors the question; “Do I have dense breast tissue?”. (Journal of National Cancer Institute)

The HerScan Cares Program was created and is available for those women most in need, which provides free ultrasound screening.

Bridging these technologies result in significantly higher detection rates of breast cancer from approximately 47% to 98% than mammography alone. (Berg, 2012) ( AreYouDense.org) The HerScan Program bridges technologies with the addition of Easy Access to ultrasound.

Mammography alone is not enough for all women.

Breast Density Notification Laws by State — Breast density notification laws have been put into effect in 27 states. A breast density notification law requires that physicians notify women who have undergone mammography and were found to have dense breast tissue. The intent of such a law was to give women the necessary information to decide on further action if they had dense breast tissue. Dense breast tissue makes it harder to identify cancer on a mammogram and may also be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to the American College of Radiology (ACR). Women with dense breasts are encouraged to discuss with their physicians their possible increased risk of breast cancer and the difficulty that mammography may have in detecting tumors.

For more information go to HerScan.com

References:

Berg, WA., Zhang, Z., Lehrer, D., Jong, RA., Pisano, E.D., Barr, R.G., Bohm-Velez, M., Mahoney, MC., Evans, WP., Larsen, L.H., Morton, M.J., et al. (2012) “Detection of breast cancer with addition of annual screening ultrasound or a single screening MRI to mammography in women with elevated breast cancer risk. “ Journal of American Medical Association. April 4; 307 (13): 1394-1404.

Yaghiyan, L., Colditz, G., Collins, L., Schnitt, S., Rosner, B., Vachon, C., Tamini, R. (2010) “Mammographic breast density and subsequent risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.” Journal National Cancer Institute. August 3; 103(15): 1179-1189.

World Health Organization website: http://www.who.int/cancer/detection/breastcancer/en/

Are you dense website: http://www.areyoudense.org



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