The Concord Hospital Breast Care Center provides comprehensive breast care services to patients who are referred by their health care provider, Concord Imagining Center, or are self referred. Patients are seen for a variety of breast concerns including a palpable breast lump, breast pain, nipple discharge, abnormal mammogram or breast ultrasound, breast cancer risk assessment and counseling, or a personal history of breast cancer.

Sharon Gunsher, MD, medical director, Melissa Hoyt, MD and Christian Wilke, MD see patients at the Breast Care Center for a variety of breast concerns and complaints. Additionally, the center’s staff collaborates with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord and Concord Surgical Associates surgeons to provide coordinated care. The Breast Care Center is located in the Pillsbury Building adjacent to Concord Imaging Center.

Services Provided at the Breast Imaging Suite at Concord Imaging Center:

• Image Checker system
• Mammograms*
• Ultrasound exams
• Stereotactic breast biopsies
• Ultrasound-guided breast biopsies

*Mammogram screenings are also performed at the Concord Hospital Radiology Department, CH Medical Offices at Horseshoe Pond, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord.

Why Choose Concord Hospital?

The Breast Care Center’s one-stop approach to services eliminates having to wait to see a surgeon once a concern is raised from a clinical exam or mammogram. If a patient is told that a biopsy is recommended following her/his diagnostic mammogram and/or breast ultrasound at the Breast Imaging Suite at Concord Imaging Center, she/he is escorted upstairs to the Breast Care Center for a consult with the surgeon or nurse practitioner. A detailed medical history and clinical breast exam is done, as well as education concerning the results of the imaging studies and the procedure recommended for the biopsy. The patient leaves this visit with all her/his questions answered, written information to review at home and appointment dates for the biopsy and a three day follow-up appointment for results and post biopsy check.

Additionally, Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care offers onsite cancer genetic counseling and testing services through a collaboration with New Hampshire Oncology-Hematology, PA (NHOH) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Instititute (DFCI) Cancer Risk & Prevention Program. The Genetic Counseling Program provides those high-risk patients critical genetic counseling and testing close to home. A DCFI Genetic Counselor is available to provider expert consultation to patients at the Breast Care Center once a month and a physician from NHOH will offer further consultation. All cases are reviewed by the team at the DFCI Cancer Risk & Prevention Program.

Hospital Contact

Lisa Delahanty, nurse practitioner and manager, Breast Care Center
Ph: (603) 230-7266

Where Can I Find Out More?

Concord Imaging Center
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
BreastCancerStories.com
Center for Integrative Medince
American Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
Susan Love MD
National Breast Cancer Foundation
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition
Innisfree
Breast Care Prevention.org
Breast Cancer.org