MUSC Hollings Cancer Center Mobile Mammography Program with Tonya Perkins, MSN and Kevin Hughes, MD

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center Mobile Mammography Program with Tonya Perkins, MSN and Kevin Hughes, MD

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women in South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reports it's the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the state. The MUSC Hollings Cancer Center is trying to make it easier for women to receive mammograms by driving a mobile health unit to counties across the state, inviting women to step aboard the mobile health unit and receive a mammogram.

Kevin Hughes, MD, Director of Cancer Genetics and the McCoy Rose Professor of Surgery at MUSC Health explains the importance of yearly screening for women over 40 and Tonya Perkins, MSN, a MUSC Health nurse practitioner explains how the mobile unit works.

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Brain Stimulation for Depression Treatment with Baron Short, MD

Brain Stimulation for Depression Treatment with Baron Short, MD

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Excellent Nursing Care Close to Home with Camille Filoromo, BSN, M.E.d., Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC

Excellent Nursing Care Close to Home with Camille Filoromo, BSN, M.E.d., Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC

MUSC Health patients who call the Lancaster and Chester county areas of South Carolina home don’t have to go far from where they live and work to receive higher levels of care. There are excellent MUS...

26 Apr 202215min

Healthy Me – Healthy SC with David Sudduth and Kapri Kreps Rhodes

Healthy Me – Healthy SC with David Sudduth and Kapri Kreps Rhodes

Improving health care access and rural and underserved populations across South Carolina is a priority of MUSC Health. A new program called Healthy Me – Healthy SC launched in 2019 to address these is...

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Sports Medicine for All Athletes with Harris Slone, MD and Mike Barr

Sports Medicine for All Athletes with Harris Slone, MD and Mike Barr

The MUSC Health Sports Medicine Team provides leading edge care for athletes and weekend warriors of all ages and abilities. The program is also the official sports medicine provider for several prof...

5 Apr 202218min

Women and Colon Cancer with Colleen Donahue, MD

Women and Colon Cancer with Colleen Donahue, MD

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Although risk of the disease is similar in both men and women, the myth that colon cancer is primarily a male di...

22 Mar 202217min

Women and Minimally Invasive Hernia Repair with Heather Evans, MD

Women and Minimally Invasive Hernia Repair with Heather Evans, MD

Surgery is the only method that can effectively treat a groin hernia, and there are more than one million hernia repairs performed in the U.S. every year. But not all hernia surgeries are the same, an...

15 Mar 202219min

MUSC Health Expands to More South Carolinians with Patrick Cawley, MD

MUSC Health Expands to More South Carolinians with Patrick Cawley, MD

An important part of MUSC Health’s mission to improve the lives of all South Carolinians. More people in South Carolina now have access to MUSC Health than ever before thanks to recent expansions and ...

8 Mar 202221min

Keeping High School Athletes Safe and Healthy with Matthew Geswell, MD

Keeping High School Athletes Safe and Healthy with Matthew Geswell, MD

A new partnership between MUSC Health Lancaster Division and Lancaster County and Chester County school districts offers efficient, open-access healthcare for young athletes and their sport-related in...

1 Mar 202216min

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