{"id":301607,"date":"2026-07-21T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:05:12","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-maimonides-medical-center-cuts-ribbon-on-new-breast-cancer-treatment-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301607\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Maimonides Medical Center Cuts Ribbon On New Breast Cancer Treatment Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Maimonides Medical Center expanded its Breast Cancer Center on Monday by opening a new wing geared towards survivors.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Dr. Patrick Borgen, director of the center, said it is a new home for quick testing with state-of-the-art technology.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Overwhelmingly, breast cancer has become a curable condition,&#8221; said Borgen. &#8220;So, our patients need a place to come so they&#8217;re not tangled with all of the diagnoses of current breast cancer patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Borgen said the suite will serve about 45 patients each day and will be equipped with 3D imaging, high-resolution ultrasound, as well as dietary and genetic counseling.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;A woman who has a mammogram every year, starting at age 40, reduces her chances of dying of breast cancer by almost 50%,&#8221; said Borgen.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Borgen said the new technology serves a real need in the borough, because Brooklyn has more breast cancer cases than 15 U.S. states.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re 40 or older, please come have your mammogram,&#8221; said Borgen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maimonides Medical Center expanded its Breast Cancer Center on Monday by opening a new wing geared towards survivors.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-301607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}