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(-)My name's Sasha Edmondson. I'm a nurse practitioner with the Breast Clinic here at Columbus Regional Health, and I am able to see high-risk patients and provide genetic testing services if they are needed.
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Audio description: Text appears: Why is the Breast Health Center at Columbus Regional Health a good option for patients even with an uncommon diagnosis?
Patients who might need breast surgery can come from a multiple different areas of the kind of multidisciplinary program. Some of those patients come through without actually being seen at the multidisciplinary clinic. If they have a cancer diagnosis, that multidisciplinary clinic helps us to all be on the same page as to what type of surgery they might need and what the best treatment might be for that specific patient.
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Audio description: Text appears: What is the High Risk Breast Clinic at Columbus Regional Health and what do they do?
That is a unique program to the area in the fact that we see patients who have risk factors that increase their risk for breast cancer. That might be family history. It may be a genetic mutation. It may be medical history and medical treatments maybe that might increase their risk for breast cancer. So we are able to see those patients, identify risk factors, and order any additional screenings or testings that we can to detect breast cancer early because the best protection against breast cancer is early detection. So that is really our goal with the high-risk clinic, is to make sure that we're seeing patients at risk and make sure that we are getting them the early screenings and testings that they need.
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