Breast center benefactors Jill Alanko and her
mother, Laura Dreier (seated) |
Laura Dreier was determined to help other women facing breast cancer after enduring a double mastectomy and drug therapy following her diagnosis in 1993. In 1999, Dreier and her daughter Jill Alenko made a pledge through the Jonathan Dreier Foundation to the Banner Good Samaritan Breast Center. In recognition of her significant gift, the Breast Center was renamed in her honor and became the Laura Dreier Breast Center at Banner Good Samaritan.
This comprehensive breast and bone health prevention, diagnosis and treatment facility serves thousands of women across the greater Phoenix area each year through such services as annual screening mammograms, bone density studies and diagnostic breast exams.
Dedicated to meeting the breast health needs of underserved women, the Laura Dreier Breast Center established the Reaching Out: Laura Dreier Breast Health Program. Through the program, outreach and clinical nurse breast specialists educate women about the latest breast disease prevention, early detection and treatment information.
With breast and bone health specialists and the latest medical technologies together under one roof, the Laura Dreier Breast Center can effectively screen patients and provides diagnoses in a matter of days. When one’s health is in question, results can never come too soon.
Procedures provided at the Laura Dreier Breast Center include:
- Biopsy (Ultrasound guided, Stereotactic guided)
- Bone Densitometry
- Breast MRI
- Breast Ultrasound
- Cyst Aspiration
- Digital Mammography
- Ductogram
- Needle Localization
- Screening & Diagnostic Mammograms
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
The Laura Dreier Breast Center’s staff can ease a
patient’s anxiety during the exam process. |
The Laura Dreier Breast Center promotes good breast health practices and teaches self-exam techniques to be used in conjunction with annual screening mammograms for women age 40 and up. To schedule a screening mammogram, diagnostic breast procedure or to learn more about the Center, please call (602) 640-3131.
An estimated 28 million people in the U.S. are at high risk of developing osteoporosis. To schedule a bone densitometry study through the Laura Dreier Breast Center, please call (602) 640-3131.