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Your Breast Health Specialist
Dr. Kathleen Jeffery is the Athens area's first female board-certified surgeon specializing in breast health. Dr. Jeffery is the medical director of St. Mary’s Breast Health Center.
What Is a High-Risk Breast Clinic?
It’s a service dedicated to women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer. We perform a risk assessment on all patients who come to us for care. This pain-free assessment helps us measure the risk that a patient might have a genetic abnormality. Women found to be at high risk can then receive genetic testing to confirm or rule out abnormalities that could lead to breast disease.
Other breast cancer risk assessment tools will be used as well, which would prompt recommendations for increased imaging surveillance handled through the high-risk clinic.
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Available Services
All patients treated at St. Mary’s Breast Health Center will have access to a multidisciplinary team of experts in surgery, genetics, high-risk screening, medical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology radiology, as well as reconstructive plastic surgery.
- Prevention counseling
- Routine screening
- Diagnostic imaging
- High-risk counseling
- Genetic counseling and testing
- Medical, radiographic, and surgical treatment
Why Choose St. Mary's Breast Health Center?
When a mammogram shows a suspicious finding, we take it very seriously. One of our breast health navigators will contact you to help you quickly schedule any additional testing you may need. We offer a full spectrum of follow-up testing, including 3D diagnostic mammography, ultrasound studies, breast MRI, and several forms of breast biopsy.
We will provide pre- and post-operative patient consultations at St. Mary's Breast Health Center. A referral from a primary care physician may be required under some insurance plans. We accept most major insurance plans and Medicare. Please contact your insurance provider for more information regarding your specific plan requirements for a specialist referral.
Dual Certified
We know our patients expect and deserve top-quality care. That’s why we have voluntarily sought and received certification by the National Quality Measures for Breast CentersTM Program and accreditation by the American College of Surgeons’ National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. These accomplishments and recognitions make our center the only dual-certified breast center in our region.
As a NAPBC-accredited center, we are committed to maintaining evidence-based levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care that results in high-quality care for patients with breast disease. Patients can be confident that their breast care team includes health care professionals from a variety of disciplines who are committed to working together to provide the best care available through their entire course of treatment.
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