Center for Breast Cancer Care

Advanced Technology & Exceptional Services for Breast Cancer Treatment

We invite you to a sophisticated place inspired by women and created for women.  You'll get the best cancer treatment possible at ProHealth Care's Center for Breast Care.  In fact, we are proud to offer breast cancer outcomes that are better than the national norms in Southeast Wisconsin.

We also offer many specialized breast cancer services not found anywhere else.  Built on the successes of the country's best breast centers, these services are backed by the most advanced technology, including all digital mammography, specially trained radiologists and a dedicated, caring staff that's committed to your health.

Our Services for Breast Cancer Treatment

The Center for Breast Cancer Care is the most advanced and comprehensive breast cancer center in Wisconsin offering the latest diagnostic technology and treatments.

ProHealth Care's Center for Breast Cancer Care is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons, and is the only NAPBC accredited center in Waukesha County.

As a NAPBC accredited breast center, patients have access to:

• Comprehensive care, including a full range of state-of-the-art breast cancer services
• A multidisciplinary team approach to coordinate the best breast cancer treatment options
• Information about ongoing clinical trials and new breast cancer treatment options
• Quality breast cancer care that’s close to home

Risk Assessment for Breast Cancer

• Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Program:  A program designed to evaluate your risk of breast cancer based on heredity and other related factors.  The program includes education, individualized breast cancer risk assessment, screenings and more.

Diagnostic Services for Breast Cancer

• Full Field Digital Mammography:  A method where digital images are adjusted on a computer to enhance tissue differences and decrease the need for additional images.
• Breast MRI:  Produces high-resolution images of the breast using a magnetic field instead of radiation.  This noninvasive, usually painless medical test that offers important information about many breast conditions that cannot be obtained by other imaging modalities, such as mammography or ultrasound.
• Stereotactic & Ultrasound Needle Biopsy:  The latest biopsy techniques combine precision digital X-ray and ultrasound imaging to pinpoint the area of concern.

Treatment Services for Breast Cancer

• Radiation Oncology including MammoSite :  This is a a precisely targeted, high-dose radiation treatment option for women with breast cancer.  By placing the radiation source in the space left where a tumor has been removed, MammoSite works from the inside to kill cancer cells.  Treatment with MammoSite dramatically cuts the number of breast cancer treatments needed to just one week.
• Medical Oncology:  Cancer treatment services include chemotherapy, immunotherapy and drug therapy.
• Breast Surgery:  Includes lumpectomy, partial or segmental mastectomy or quadrantectomy, total mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy, radical mastectomy.
• Clinical Research Programs:  Many of our breast cancer patients participate in national clinical research programs established by the National Cancer Institute.

Why choose us for breast cancer treatment?

• Our specially trained radiologists read more than 30,000 mammograms each year. Greater experience means detecting breast cancer earlier.
• All technologists for the Center for Breast Cancer Care are dedicated to breast imaging.
• Immediate results from mammograms and, if an ultrasound or stereotactic biopsy is needed, they are done same-day for added convenience and reassurance.
• Breast biopsies are performed only by dedicated breast imaging radiologists.
• Pathologists that review biopsies and specialize in breast cancer diagnosis.
• Every patient has a care coordinator who makes appointments, provides support and guidance throughout all aspects of breast cancer treatment.  Our care coordinators are certified in oncology nursing.
• The physician team meets weekly to discuss individual breast cancer cases and carefully considers the best treatment plans.  This multidisciplinary conference gives patients multiple second opinions representing a variety of specialties.
• Four convenient locations.

How can I learn more about breast cancer treatment?

• Find the ProHealth Care location nearest you and schedule your mammogram today.  To schedule an appointment, call 262-928-3000.
• Take our breast cancer health quiz.
• If you have a breast cancer diagnosis, learn more about our second opinion program or call 262-928-2116.
• Call our Cancer Information Line at 1-877-398-7878.