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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,…
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Find Convenient Self-Pay Care Just Over the Border
Should you cross the border to the U.S. and self-pay for diagnostic imaging services instead of using your health insurance plan to pay for them in Canada? There may be advantages to doing so. Many Canadians are experiencing long wait times for medical care. In fact, a 2023 report by the Fraser Institute found the…
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What a Family History of Breast Cancer Really Means for You
You have probably heard that having a family history of breast cancer increases your risk of developing the disease. But an increased risk is not the same thing as a sure thing. There are many risk factors for developing breast cancer — and many women without any of those risk factors still end up with…
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Board Officers Elected
The Windsong Cares Foundation elected its officers as follows: Vice President Cristin Priester, Treasurer Dawn Schlee, and Secretary Sabrina Gerster. Dr. Raja Cheruvu is the ex-officio President. Marielle Ferstenberg, DO, and Jolene Wilson will continue as Directors. .
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Grant from Harry Dent Family
The Windsong Cares Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to the Harry Dent Family Foundation, Inc. for their generous grant of $7,500! This funding will help sustain vital initiatives, including bi-monthly informational classes for WNY breast cancer patients preparing for surgery. Each patient is given a comforting blanket as a gesture of our donors’ support.
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Navigating Your Journey With Breast Cancer Specialists and Care Team
According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life. All of these women benefit from having a strong support system. Along with family and friends, breast care specialists provide supportive education and expert care. If you’re starting your breast cancer journey, here…
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Putting the Power of AI to Work for Breast Health
Your annual screening mammogram has one job: to find breast cancer if it’s present so you can start treatment as early as possible, thereby giving you a better chance of survival. You want results you can trust, so accuracy means everything. That’s why Windsong Radiology now uses a new tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Why Consider a 3D Mammogram? Here’s What to Know
For your annual screening mammogram, two factors matter most: clarity and confidence. You want images that are as clear as possible so your radiologist can find potential breast cancer early, and you want to feel confident in the results. A 3D mammogram provides the most advanced level of breast cancer screening, with the ability to…
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Introducing the Revolutionary TULSA Procedure for Prostate Care
One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, making it the most common type of cancer for men after nonmelanoma skin cancer. Moreover, many men also suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly known as enlarged prostate, which can cause urinary problems but is not cancerous. In the past, existing…
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What Does a Head CT Scan Show? More Than You Might Think
Whether medical providers need to understand why you’re having persistent headaches or quickly evaluate you for a stroke or traumatic brain injury in the emergency department, they’re likely to order a scan of your head using computed tomography. What does a head CT scan show? It reveals details about your brain, skull, blood vessels, soft…
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How Early Detection Affects Breast Cancer Survival Rates
A lot can happen in a year, including changes to your breasts that you can’t see or feel. When you get an annual screening mammogram, however, you’re more likely to find small, potentially cancerous changes — and breast cancer treatment stands a better chance of success. Early detection, which means finding cancer before it causes…
