Breast Cancer Care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
When you’re our patient, we don’t just treat your breast cancer – we treat you. You receive whole-person care for your body, mind and spirit. Our Breast Health Center offers compassionate, expert care under one roof. This care includes same- or next-day appointments for patients with breast pain, lumps or masses.
For mammograms and other imaging appointments: 818-847-3550
For urgent breast concerns: 818-847-3781
Breast Cancer Care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
When you’re our patient, we don’t just treat your breast cancer – we treat you. You receive whole-person care for your body, mind and spirit. Our Breast Health Center offers compassionate, expert care under one roof. This care includes same- or next-day appointments for patients with breast pain, lumps or masses.
For mammograms and other imaging appointments: 818-847-3550
For urgent breast concerns: 818-847-3781
About Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that forms in the cells of breast tissue. It’s more common in women, but men can get breast cancer too.
Our expert oncology team uses the most effective, leading-edge therapies to treat patients with breast cancer and its related conditions, including:
- Breast cysts
- Breast infections
- Ductal cancers
- Gynecomastia
- In situ breast cancer
- Lobular cancers
- Male breast cancer
- Metastatic cancers
- Nipple discharge
Testing and Diagnostics
Your doctors use many diagnostic and prognostic tools to learn which therapies work best to treat your cancer. Taking into account factors specific to your case, like cancer type and the genetic or molecular profile of the tumor, this may include one or more of the following:
- Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Gene expression assay
- Genetic testing and counseling
- HER2/Neu
- Hormone receptor (HR) status
- Mammography (2D, 3D)
- Ultrasound
Why Choose Us for Your Breast Cancer Care?
As our patient, you have access to the best specialists and a full range of support services for you and your loved ones, all under one roof. We’re able to minimize the time between your diagnosis and treatment with coordinated, whole-person care that always puts you first.
Awards and Accreditations
We are proud to see our dedication to our patients recognized by the most well-respected programs and institutions in the United States. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center has achieved the following recognitions:
- Breast Health Center Accreditation – American College of Radiology (ACR)
- Breast Imaging Center of Excellence – American College of Radiology (ACR)
- Commission on Cancer (CoC) Accreditation – American College of Surgeons (ACS)
- Accreditation – Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC)
Supporting Our Cancer Patients
Part of treating your illness means supporting and empowering you as a whole person – body, mind and spirit. We provide you with a wide range of support services beyond conventional treatment to help you and your loved ones through your treatment journey as comfortably as possible. Depending on your personal needs, this may include one or more of the following:
- Acupressure
- Acupuncture
- Art journaling
- Beauty Bus partnership for haircuts, wigs and more
- Counseling
- Community health center partnerships
- Genetic counseling
- Hypnotherapy
- Integrative medicine
- Lymphedema services
- Massage therapy
- Nurse navigation
- Nutrition services
- On-demand video chat care with partner One Medical
- Online patient education
- Outpatient centers
- Palliative care
- Personal appearance center
- Qigong
- Research trials
- Sound healing
- Support groups
- Survivorship programs
- Women’s health services
- Yoga
Part of the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles
Our patients are the center of everything we do:
- Our unique patient navigator program offers navigators specific to each cancer type to assist you throughout your cancer journey.
- Our beautiful, modern hospitals are equipped with the latest technologies.
- We also offer robust research labs not found in local, community-focused hospitals.
Learn more about the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles
Find Clinical Trials
Are you looking for a clinical trial for yourself or for a patient? We’d love to help you find one!