The Mount Sinai Hospital Mobile Mammography Program

Mount Sinai aims to help by offering a mobile mammography program that brings diagnostic technology to all five boroughs of New York City. The goal is to assist women aged 40 and over in obtaining annual screening mammograms. The program provides breast cancer screening services for women 40 and older who have not had a mammogram in the past year and show no signs or symptoms of the disease. The aim is to catch breast cancer as early as possible, when it can be most easily treated.

The program offers high-quality, state-of-the-art digital 3D mammography technology, known as digital breast tomosynthesis. This technology produces images of breast tissue in one-millimeter-thin layers, allowing doctors to examine the tissue with greater accuracy. As a result, women are much less likely to need additional images after the screening appointment compared to a traditional 2D mammogram.

Outreach and Education

MSHS is a hub for comprehensive care for every phase of breast health, providing the latest in prevention, diagnostics, surgery, medical and radiation treatment, and support after treatment. MSHS offers a culturally sensitive educational program for black women in New York to promote breast and cervical cancer screening, called The Witness Project® of Harlem. MSHS also offers a program called, Esperanza y Vida® to promote breast and cervical cancer screening in a culturally sensitive way for Latina women. MSHS is home to the Tisch Cancer Institute, which is a National Cancer Institute-designated Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer.

MSHS offers breast cancer screening services in eleven fixed site facilities with some in or near target neighborhoods and one mobile facility. The Dubin Breast Center and the Center for Advanced Medicine are both located in East  Harlem, both providing services for over ten years. Mount Sinai Morningside is located close to the Central Harlem/Morningside Heights neighborhoods. Mount Sinai Brooklyn is located close to the neighborhood of East Flatbush. The mobile mammography van is licensed to serve anywhere in NYS, but its fixed base is located in East Harlem in order to best serve all 5 boroughs of NYC.