2023-10-31 07:25:00
Last year, 1,154 mammograms were carried out by the Saint-Flour hospital center. An increasing figure. Proof that the service dedicated to consultations for prevention and screening of breast cancer, but also of the colon and cervix, and to the support of sick people, has its entire reason for being.
Even better. Installed since March 2018 on the ground floor of the Territorial Health Center, this local center sets an example. Because, as recalled by Doctor Eric Fondrinier, gynecologist at Aurillac hospital, present in Saint-Flour twice a month,
the service is in its sixth year and it is a success, born from a difficulty because there was no longer a private radiology practice in Saint-Flour at the time. But by setting up this center to respond to a need in the basin, which required a large investment, both economic and human, and real cooperative work between the teams, Saint-Flour was well ahead. And even today, it is an innovative action, because it is rare in France.
And to insist: “this quality activity, because it is integrated into the care pathway, has created a new dynamic, for patients, but also for the entire territory”.
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By opening the door to the mammography department, with a team of eight radio technicians, who have benefited from specific training, two radiologists, with particular approval for reading mammography images, a doctor specialist and three referent secretaries, users “are taken care of from A to Z”, specifies Dr Fondrinier. In terms of screening, treatment, monitoring and the psychological aspect.
Dedicated time slots
In this month of Pink October, the Saint-Flour hospital center once again wanted to support the annual communication campaign intended to raise women’s awareness of breast cancer screening and to raise funds for research. The opportunity also to (re)promote this local mammography center, sometimes still unknown to the Sanflorian population, and to specify “that the goal is to maintain it”, assured Julien Cestre, director of the establishment. interim, who also recalled that he would soon be equipped with a brand new mammograph. Its commissioning is planned for the end of the first quarter of 2024.
Prevention and detection of these cancers, “especially early detection,” assures Dr. Nasser, radiologist and head of the medical imaging department, proves to be major in the fight against cancer. As proof, in Saint-Flour, of the 832 mammograms carried out since the start of the year (screening and non-screening), 82 patients were subject to surveillance or histological verification, or 9.8%. .
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Faced with this major public health issue, and faced with the increase in requests for consultations, the Sanflorain center, usually open Tuesdays from 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and Thursdays from 9:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., occasionally extends its time slots according to needs. “A flexibility that we have thanks to the availability of the teams,” explained Sandrine Delcelier, general care coordinator at the hospital center.
To make an appointment, the average time of which is two months, call 04.71.60.64.18.
Isabelle Barnérias
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