Mercy Breast Center - Joplin
Better convenience. Latest technology.
Our new location brings you more convenience and the latest technology to help detect and prevent breast cancer. The Mercy Breast Center team is dedicated to keeping you healthy, and we always do it in a warm, personal setting.
- Convenient hours and online scheduling
- Clearer images - latest digital technology means fewer retakes and the best images for diagnosis
- Quicker delivery - Your physician sees your mammography images through your Mercy electronic health record
Mercy Breast Center - Joplin also offers advanced stereotactic biopsy, MRI and ultrasound.
Ensuring Access to Mammography
Mammogram screening is proven to reduce breast cancer-related deaths and Mercy Health Foundation Joplin helps ensure that every woman has access to this life-saving screening. Through the generosity of individual donors and groups such as Hope 4 You Breast Cancer Foundation, the Foundation’s Mammogram Fund provides funding for mammograms for women who are uninsured or under-insured.
3D Mammography
The Mercy Breast Center offers the region’s first 3D mammogram (tomosynthesis) technology, the latest in breast imaging technology. Advantages 3D mammography offers include:
- Better screening and earlier detection through minimization of overlapping tissues in images
- Enhanced image quality allowing better visualization for radiologists to help distinguish harmless abnormalities from real cancers
- Reduced patient anxiety and fewer callbacks
