The Sentara digital mobile mammography van makes mammogram appointments fast and convenient for women in the Hampton Roads area.
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The Sentara digital mammography van visits locations
across Hampton Roads.
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Convenient By offering women the option of a mobile unit coming to their employer or other locations near their home, women can more easily set aside the time for this important screening tool.
Comfortable
38-foot fully equipped mobile mammography van.
Hotel-like interior and two private dressing rooms
Central air/heating system with back-up AC unit
Platform step for safer patient entry
How Do I Make An Appointment?
Register online or call 1-800-SENTARA.
To schedule the van for a specific location, please call (757) 261-6914.
Digital mammography
Proven to be a better screening tool for breast cancer, especially in women who are under age 50 or women of any age with very dense breasts.
Images are electronic and can be enhanced or enlarged, compared to prior years’ studies.
Images easily transferable for second opinions.
Images from mobile mammography van read by the same radiologists who read mammograms at the Sentara Leigh Comprehensive Breast Center.
If any of the following apply to you, please make a mammography appointment at a facility and not the van:
A serious breast problem such as a lump, thickening, bloody discharge from the nipple, recent inverted nipple, "orange peel" texture to the skin, redness or discoloration
of the breast or any other recent changes that are not normal for the patient.
Under the age of 35
Breast implants
History of breast cancer
First mammogram after having breast surgery for any abnormal condition
Follow-up mammogram less than 12 months from their most recent normal mammogram.
The mobile mammography van represents a $652,000 investment in Hampton Roads' women’s health. The auxiliaries at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Sentara Leigh Hospital, and Sentara CarePlex Hospital contributed to the purchase of the van. At no cost to businesses, the van is scheduled to visit more than 60 employers across Hampton Roads at numerous locations
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