Breast Care Services
The Albany Med Health System offers a full range of services, including specialty services. Breast care is provided at all four hospitals in the System.
Patient-Focused
We guide patients through routine preventive care, screening, diagnostic procedures, and treatment of breast disease.
If you are diagnosed with breast cancer, new treatments, genetic breakthroughs, and surgical advances have brought much better outcomes. Along with our partners at New York Oncology Hematology (NYOH), we have access to the latest therapies and clinical trials.
Care Throughout the Capital Region
Albany Medical Center, Glens Falls Hospital, and Saratoga Hospital are accredited by The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers for services in breast ultrasound, stereotactic breast biopsy, computed tomography, and MRI.
Learn more about breast care services at Columbia Memorial Health. In the newly opened Center for Breast Care, patients will find the complete suite of state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic services, including screening and diagnostic 3D mammography, diagnostic ultrasound, ultrasound guided biopsy, and stereotactic breast biopsy in one building.
All locations and physicians in the System can be found in the Get Care section of this page.
- Breast abscess
- Benign breast conditions and tumors
- Breast cancer in women and men
- Breast changes
- Preventive care
- Trauma
- All other breast conditions
- High-risk patients
- Mammography
- 3D mammography
- 3D digital mammography (digital breast tomosynthesis)
- 3D digital stereotactic breast biopsy
- Breast biopsy with needle localization and surgical excisional biopsy
- Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
- Computer Aided Detection (CAD)
- Breast ultrasound
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast surgery
- Breast conserving surgery
- Bone density exam (screen for osteoporosis)
- Lymph node dissections and biopsies
- Lymphoscintigraphy (also called sentinel node mapping, this imagine procedure used dye to see if lymph nodes are affected by cancer cells)
- Lumpectomies and mastectomies (simple, modified, or skin-sparing)
- Mastectomy
- Hidden scar lumpectomy
- Hidden scar mastectomy
- Immunotherapy
- Nurse navigators
- Oncoplastic breast reduction
- Preoperative needle localization (used in surgical biopsies to help guide surgeons to the abnormality)
- Personalized treatment
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Stereotactic Biopsy
- Ultrasound (may be used in addition to mammography, especially in high-risk patients)
Along with our renowned plastic surgeons, we also offer a wide range of breast reconstruction.
In addition to regular screening, we encourage and support healthy lifestyles that can reduce the possibility of developing breast cancer. Women who have an elevated risk may also be offered additional screening tests, genetic testing, medical or surgical interventions to help reduce breast cancer risk.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle is the best way to prevent all sorts of illnesses and diseases, and manage chronic conditions.
- Stay physically active
- Eat a healthy diet
- Do not skip your annual physical
- Limit alcohol consumption and avoid all tobacco products
- Get regular cancer screenings
- Watch your weight
Imaging Services
Learn more about our Radiology & Imaging services, including sophisticated mammography, throughout the Capital Region.
