3D technology helps doctors spot breast cancer more easily

EJGH is one of the first hospitals in Louisiana to offer 3D Mammography. This new state-of-the-art technology provides 3-dimensional images of the breast, which can help detect abnormalities in dense breast better than standard mammography. 

Shawn Hotard, a wife, and mother in her mid-forties, faces a diagnosis no woman wants to hear – breast cancer. Shawn is also an EJGH team member and radiology tech who understands the clinical benefits of catching cancer early. That is why she followed her physician’s advice to have frequent mammogram screenings due to her dense breast tissue, even though she had no family history of the disease. And, that decision may have saved her life.

Conventional mammograms may have missed her cancer because it does not always offer a clear enough image through dense breast tissue. Now, with the use of 3D mammography technology, EJGH radiologists can detect cancers and better differentiate between cancers and normal breast cysts.

Shawn is now undergoing chemotherapy and will have radiation therapy as part of her future regimens of treatment. 

CLICK HERE to view a WWL-TV story that features Shawn Hotard and EJGH Radiologist Dr. Mary Beth Lobrano.

CLICK HERE to learn more about The Breast Care Center at EJGH and 3D mammography.