CAROL M. BALDWIN BREAST CARE CENTER

Responding to the special needs of women on Long Island, Stony Brook's Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center — named in honor of breast cancer awareness activist Carol M. Baldwin — provides comprehensive management of breast cancer and benign breast disease. It is located in our Cancer Center (map/directions), on the campus of University Medical Center.

The multidisciplinary Breast Care Service brings together the expertise of clinical faculty and staff from the departments of surgery; medicine; radiology; radiation oncology; and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine. Breast surgeons and mammographers work side by side to complete the entire evaluation at the patient's first visit.

The Breast Care Center offers convenient outpatient breast surgery, as well as stereotactic biopsy procedures. Both radiation and medical oncologists are available for consultation. Specialized lymphedema treatment is now available through the physical therapy department (for information on our special program that enhances patient access to lymphedema care, call Catherine Tuppo, director of University Medical Center's lymphedema program, at 631-444-4240).

It is expected that the Breast Care Center will continue to grow at a rapid pace, serving as the model for quality breast care on Long Island. For more information, please visit the Center's home page. See profile of the Breast Care Center in the 2005 annual report, Cancer Care at Stony Brook University Hospital.

For consultations/appointments, please call 631-638-1000.