Speaker 4
0:54:16
Thank you for that question.
0:54:18
Council amendment, it's a major area of concern for us as well.
0:54:23
One of the things that we worry a lot about is the time from diagnosis of an abnormal mammogram to a final diagnosis of what the issue might be on that mammogram and then into actual treatment if it turns out that the abnormality on the mammogram is breast cancer or some other cancer.
0:54:43
This is one of the most important areas of intervention in cancer care in early treatment.
0:54:48
And so we agree with that concern.
0:54:51
The current work that we do with the mobile mammography band actually does have navigators as a part of the program.
0:54:58
And so what those navigators do is when someone who has their mammogram on the mobile van has an abnormal mammogram The navigator helps to reach out to them to make sure they understand the abnormality and helps them to as quickly as possible.
0:55:14
Get into a follow-up visit to figure out if they need further diagnostic test thing, whether that's a biopsy or an ultrasound or something else, and then helps them to get into treatment.
0:55:27
So that is part of the mobile mammography program.
0:55:31
I'm not I'm not saying that that happens for every mobile mammogram band, but for the one that we partner with at the health department.
