Affirm

The Primrose Breast Care Centre at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, has replaced an old biopsy table with a Hologic Affirm prone breast biopsy system.  Having offered prone biopsy for more than 10 years, the Derriford team was keen to opt for prone again for its improved patient comfort and easy positioning. The centre sees assessment and […]

Seated are consultant radiologist Dr Catherine Glynn and consultant radiologist and clinical lead Dr Aideen Larke.  Behind are Michael Leonard of Hospital Services Limited, radiographers Liya Phiri, Lucie Barry, Preetha Gopinathan and deputy radiology services manager Mary Fitzgerald. The BreastCheck Western Unit in Galway has installed the latest Hologic Affirm prone biopsy table, having received […]

Hologic breast health sales specialist John McMahon, radiology services manager Christian Kasmerdis, specialist radiographer Miki Gallagher, consultant radiographer breast imaging Sarah Rainford, HCA Glenys Wiltshire, consultant radiologist Dr George Stasinos and specialist radiographer Barbara Jaggard. Bedford Hospital’s breast unit has expanded its diagnostic service having purchased a Hologic Selenia Dimensions 2D Mammography system with 3D […]

Hologic product manager, breast health, UK Emanuela Abello, product specialist EMEA, breast and skeletal health solutions Kathleen Lott and regional business manager, breast and skeletal health solutions, UK and Ireland, Ambrose Murray. Hologic has introduced its Affirm prone biopsy system, first as a work in progress at RSNA, at ECR in Vienna and ultimately at […]

Imaging services manager Shila Mistry, senior radiographers Naomi Khandakar and Ranjan Mistry and Hologic breast health sales specialist John McMahon. The 160-year-old Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London has installed a Selenia Dimensions 3D Mammography equipment, Affirm tomosynthesis breast biopsy technology and an Eviva vacuum-assisted breast biopsy device from Hologic. The Affirm […]

With the Hologic 3D mammography system at the QEII Hospital are Hologic breast health sales specialist John McMahon, radiology nurse Alison Cooper, clinical lead radiographer Jill Rogers, lead mammographer Vicki Sanderson and consultant radiologist Dr Kausa Raza. Welwyn Garden City’s new QE11 Hospital has been built with inspiration from the garden city concept of Sir […]

Hologic breast health radiology sales specialist Louise Wilcox, senior radiographer Shahina Ahmed, mammographer Cathy Moth, consultant radiologists Dr Margaret Moreland and Dr Amrita Kumar, radiography nurse Margaret Cullip and mammographer Manika Gurung with their Eviva training certificates. The Parapet Breast Unit housed in King Edward VII Hospital at Windsor provides a dedicated breast symptomatic and […]

With a mobile in an Edinburgh supermarket car park are members of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme including radiographers, support, procurement and management staff. Scotland’s breast screening service has gone digital, following Hologic’s success in both phases of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme (SBSP) tenders in 2012 and 2013.  Thirty-eight 2D Selenia Dimensions mammography units […]