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What Can a Heart Scan Tell You? Calcium Scoring and CCTA

Heart disease is often silent until it leads to a heart attack or stroke. A CT heart scan can detect early warning signs, helping you and your doctor assess your risk and take preventive action. What a Heart Scan Reveals About Your Health Doctors can use many tests to understand your heart health. For example,…
Breast Awareness: Breast Health Starts at Home

Being “breast aware” is an essential step in taking charge of your breast health, and monthly breast self-exams are a key practice in achieving this. By getting to know your breasts, you’ll become familiar with their normal appearance and feel, allowing you to notice any changes more easily. Guidelines recommend that women begin performing self-exams…
Mammography Technologist: Part of Your Breast Care Team

When you come in for a mammogram at Windsong Radiology, you can count on receiving comprehensive breast health services. Our experienced team of mammography technologists works with our expert radiologists who are subspecialized in breast health to provide compassionate, personalized care for all patients. The mammography technologist will guide you through the entire process, making…
Saturday, August 3 – Let’s Go To Bat for Cancer Screening!

Join the Windsong Cares Foundation for Let’s Go To Bat For Cancer Screening! On Sunday, August 3rd we will gather at 1:05 PM in Section 114 at Sahlen Field for an afternoon of baseball and to celebrate those who know first-hand the importance of cancer screening to save lives including patients, survivors, caregivers, screeners, our…
BRCA Gene Testing: Learn Your Risk of Breast or Ovarian Cancer

Understanding your genetic risk for cancer can be life-changing. BRCA gene testing can provide answers about your likelihood of developing breast or ovarian cancer so you can take proactive steps for your health. If you have a family history of breast cancer or other hereditary risk factors for cancer, you may be eligible for testing.…
Abdominal CT Scan: Understanding a Valuable Diagnostic Tool

If you are experiencing stomach pain, blood in your urine, or other concerning symptoms involving the abdomen, you want answers and relief as quickly as possible. An imaging test called an abdominal CT scan can bring you closer to both. Physicians might not be able to see or feel the cause of abdominal symptoms with…
How Long Does an MRI Take? What You Need to Know

To find the cause of a sore knee, aching back, or another irritating or concerning symptom, your physician needs an inside look. For that, they may order a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the tissues, muscles, organs, or blood vessels in question to inform diagnosis and a treatment plan. One of your next questions…
How Lumbar Spine MRI Can Help Identify the Cause of Low Back Pain

Low back pain is one of the most common medical complaints among adults. Aging-related changes can affect your spine as early as your 30s or younger, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. These changes may set the stage for low back pain later in life. If pain develops, your physician may turn to…
Diagnostic Mammogram: Demystifying Additional Imaging

After having your annual screening mammogram, you may be called back for an additional imaging exam called a diagnostic mammogram so the radiologist can take a closer look at an area of concern seen in the initial mammogram. You may be wondering why you need another mammogram, what to expect, what more imaging might show,…
Dense Breast Tissue and Your Breast Health

How well do you know your breasts? If you perform a monthly breast self-exam, you’re probably familiar with how your breasts normally look and feel. That’s great because it can help you identify changes your primary care physician may want to investigate. There’s something else you should know about your breasts that you can’t learn…