Breast Screening

At the private breast screening clinic at Springfield Hospital, we utilise state of the art technology with 3 Dimensional Mammography, we are the only private hospital in the whole of Essex to offer this.

The benefits of this are as follows:

1)More accurate detection: By minimising the impact of overlapping breast tissue, 3D mammography can make breast cancer easier to spot. Reviewing multiple images has helped doctors find more cancers than with 2D images alone.

2)Earlier diagnosis: Overlapping tissue can hide small cancers in a 2D scan. However, with 3D mammography, the image “slices” can be analysed one by one. This means 3D mammography may help detect cancers earlier than conventional mammography.

3)Better detection in dense breast tissue: Dense breast tissue, often found in younger women under 40 , can cause shadows due to overlapping tissue, which hides breast cancers from traditional 2D mammography. 3D mammography takes images of the breast from multiple angles, thereby offering a cutting-edge look through and around breast tissue.

Our breast clinics run 3 times per week with our 2 experienced consultant surgeons and we offer competitive packages for those ladies who wish to self-pay to attend the rapid diagnostic clinic, if they do not have private medical insurance accordingly.