Advancing Breast Exam Standards and Practices Since 1974
The MammaCare Method® is the recognized standard for
performing and teaching clinical and personal breast examination
Breast Exam Training Technology
Critical breast exam skills are learned on tactually accurate breast models and breast exam simulators that teach the difference between suspicious masses and normal nodular breast tissue so that clinicians and women can perform more effective breast exams without false positive alarms.
University Students
This site is dedicated to US universities participating in the MammaCare / National Science Foundation Clinical Breast Exam Competency Network (CBECN). The course modules include both online tutorials and training practice on MammaCare CBE simulators that teach and validate palpation skills.
Certifications
Certification courses provide in-depth training to improve examination and teaching skills and to increase clinician confidence. Certification is offered to nurses, physicians, radiologic technologists and health educators in the United States and Germany.
Continuing Education
The MammaCare online continuing education (CE) course introduces the standards of practice for proficient clinical breast examination (CBE) and personal breast examination. The course contains instructional videos that guide hands through essential palpation exercises and didactic learning modules.
Mission
MammaCare’s mission is to train every hand that examines a woman, including her own.
MammaCare®, the recognized quality-standard for clinical and personal breast exams, was developed with the support of the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation and scientists worldwide.
MammaCare trains the sense of touch to detect suspicious breast tumors at the earliest stage while reducing false alarms. Medical research now confirms that fingers discover a large proportion of breast cancers. MammaCare teaches fingers what to feel for.
Blog: Latest News & Research
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Clinical Breast Exam Update – Recent Findings
Clinical Breast Exams – Recent Findings Do Primary Care Physician Perform Clinical Breast Exams Prior to Ordering a Mammogram? Breast J. 2016 Mar-Apr;22(2): “Despite recommendations, approximately 1/3 of women report not having CBE prior to mammogram. Lack of CBE can lead to incorrect type of mammogram, with possibly increased cost and delay in diagnosis.” (bold […]
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Thanks to President Jimmy Carter
Dear President Carter, […]
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Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
While there are wide differences of opinion among prominent organizations about preferred breast cancer screening guidelines, most breast cancer is first detected by the hands of women or their health care providers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) notes that self-exams are effective in detecting breast cancer for a majority of women although this finding conflicts with […]
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Breast Self-Exams Work – Find Breast Cancer Missed on Mammograms Women Report
Women self-detect breast cancer with their hands, cancer that was missed by mammograms according to women and research. At first this may seem to contradict or even disrupt traditional practices, but biological and clinical evidence supports the women. Hundreds of touch receptors in our fingers comprise an exquisitely sensitive network that improves with practice by establishing […]
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Science of Self-Exams Taught at Blessing Breast Center
Sheila Hermesmeyer, oncology nurse and MammaCare BSE Instructor, has many roles at Blessing Breast Center, where she has worked for 38 years. Hermesmeyer is Blessing Hospital’s Breast Center Navigator, helping patients understand their diagnoses, addressing barriers to care, coordinating the monthly lymphedema screening clinic, and shepherding women through the often-complicated process of breast cancer diagnosis […]
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Women and Clinicians Learn Breast Exams Skills Despite “Prohibition”
Antique US Government policies continue to resist safe, low-cost breast cancer screening leaving women and their healthcare providers in a confusing and costly screening fog. Informed clinicians and women are constrained by an influential US agency recommendation against teaching women how to perform breast self exams and against breast cancer screening exams by the hands of trained […]
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Breast Cancer Screening: The Way Forward Worldwide
Breast cancer screening can be improved in the US and worldwide by training the hands of women and their practitioners to perform skilled, standardized exams. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study The breasts of 89,000 Canadian women were examined either by mammograms (x-ray) or by nurses trained to perform skilled clinical (manual) breast exams and self-exams. The women were randomly […]
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MammaCare Medical Mission for the Women of Uganda
The epidemic of breast cancer became a death sentence for many women in Uganda according to a series of revealing reports. Epidemics expand in the absence of knowledge and training and Ugandan women desperately needed both. They needed a way to identify and report the signs of early breast cancer, a way that could be […]
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Bringing MammaCare to Nigeria – Balancing Research and Community Needs
When education and opportunity intersect, young people often take their skills to big cities where access to modern technology and amenities make life easier. Not Stella Oluwabukola. Pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Stella knew her calling was to bring her education back to the rural communities that needed her skills the […]
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Breast Exams Performed By The Hands Of Nurses And Doctors About To Get Better
National Science Foundation grant establishes Clinical Breast Exam Competency Network April 7, 2015 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Breast exams are about to get better because the National Science Foundation awarded MammaCare a Phase llB project grant. The grant establishes a “Clinical Breast Exam Competency Network” (CBECN) to document the palpation skills of clinical students on […]
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Qlik Honors MammaCare for Advancing Women’s Health
Early detection of breast cancer is in the hands of clinicians and women. In late 2013, the World Health Organization reported a sharp rise in breast cancer. The following excerpt is from the report: “In 2012, 1.7 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer…since 2008 estimates, breast cancer incidence has increased by more than 20%, […]
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Best-Practice BSE at Mercy Suburban Hospital
Polly Sacco Ezzell, BSN, RN, OCN offers gold-standard breast self-exam (BSE) instruction at Mercy Suburban Hospital’s Breast Center. Her program is the only one of its kind in the region, training women individually to perform the scientifically validated technique for BSE. Ezzell trains women in the MammaCare Method, which uses tactually accurate breast models to […]
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MammaCare Graduates Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Join MammaCare in recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October! Programs around the country are providing expanded screening and outreach services to women in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While most women are aware that screening is an important part of their health care routine, heightened coverage during the month of October serves as […]
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What We Can Learn From A Man With A Mammogram
B. D. Colen shares an exceptional narrative about discovering a breast lump and getting a mammogram on Huffington Post. I encourage you to read his article, and see if you agree with his conclusion. Frankly, I’d be willing to bet that if one man in nine developed breast cancer, the recommendation would be to do weekly breast […]
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Why So Much Confusion About Breast Self-Exams?
Women everywhere are confused by the conflicting messages they receive about breast self-examination (BSE). A few large private and public agencies vacillate in their recommendations. The media often add to the confusion by uncritically repeating official recommendations that seem to cast doubt on the value of BSE. Yet the fact remains that a large proportion of breast […]
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What Does Breast Cancer Lump Feel Like
Feeling a lump is the first symptom of breast cancer for many women but as explained below, breast tissue is naturally lumpy and most lumps are normal. The most common question asked is, “What does breast cancer feel like?” To answer that question, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) supported research and development of standards and […]
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MammaCare Technology Sets Standards for Clinical Breast Exams
MammaCare NSF Webcast, Early Breast Cancer Detection Saves Lives View a webcast with Mark Kane Goldstein, Ph.D, a founder and Director of the MammaCare Foundation Thanks to MammaCare science and the National Science Foundation a revolutionary technology now provides standards of training for performing clinical breast exams. The computer guided system trains medical and nursing students […]
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Revolutionary Technology Improves Accuracy of Clinical Breast Examinations
Revolutionary Technology Improves Accuracy of Clinical Breast Examinations MammaCare® Breast Exam Simulator Produces Smart Fingers™ GAINESVILLE, Fla., (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – MammaCare, recognized for advancing breast examination standards announced a revolutionary, computer-guided clinical breast examination (CBE) technology that improves and objectively confirms practitioners’ ability to reliably detect small breast tumors while reducing false positives. MammaCare scientists developed […]
