Breast Care
At St. Catherine Hospital our staff is dedicated to providing comprehensive and personalized breast care, treating the whole patient, body, mind, and spirit.
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Our Services
Every breast patient is different and requires a personalized approach. The breast care team at St. Catherine Hospital will develop a plan tailored to meet your needs, using the latest screening and diagnostic tools available for treatment.
Comprehensive breast care
Comprehensive breast care
- Pathology, following all CAP protocols
- Bi-weekly interdisciplinary breast conference - providing the opportunity for prospective case review
- Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
- Genetic evaluation and management (available in conjunction with KU Medical Center)
- Surgical care including Lumpectomy, Mastectomy, Lymph node surgery, and Sentinel node/axillary dissection
- Plastic surgery consultation
- Experienced nursing and support staff
- Medical/radiation oncology consultation and treatment
- Clinical trial availability
- Patient education, support and rehabilitation
- Lymphedema
- Survivorship Program
- Specialized patient support
- Onsite spiritual care services
- Support and rehabilitation services
- Educational resources
- Prevention and early detection programs
- Breast cancer clinical trials available
- Breast conserving surgical options
- Reconstructive surgery options are available to breast surgery patients
Benefits of a breast center
Benefits of a breast center
- Prompt diagnosis and treatment
- Elimination of barriers to care
- Improving patient satisfaction and preparedness
- Ensuring timely delivery of services
- Breast Patient Nurse Navigator
- Patients are managed by an interdisciplinary team
- Prevention and early detection programs
Breast patient nurse navigator
- Guidance through the healthcare system
- Access to community resources, support programs and education
- Identify and address physical, emotional, spiritual and psychosocial needs
- Support after your treatment is complete
- Coordination of care with your primary care providers
- Development of a cancer survivorship care plan
- Access to supportive care, wellness programs and nutritional support and referral to all other services as necessary
- Collaborates with healthcare providers to coordinate seamless cancer care
- Ensure standards and guidelines for cancer diagnosis and treatment are followed
Clinical trials nurse
- Provide information for available clinical trials through Heartland Cancer Center
- Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials are done locally in Garden City in conjunction with Heartland Cancer Center
