Located in Fort Worth, Texas, the Moncrief Cancer Institute serves a large geographical region assisting patients from 30+ surrounding counties to prevent and detect cancer. Their services include screenings for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer. Since 2008, Moncrief Cancer Institute has maintained a team of certified MammaCare Clinical Breast Examiners.

In April 2023, The MammaCare Foundation certified the 12th clinical breast examiner from Moncrief. The team of certified clinical breast examiners at Moncrief provide evidence-based breast exams and education to patients from all walks of life. These clinical breast examiners report that skilled exams have found breast tumors that were not initially reported by patients or discovered by mammography and were confirmed by biopsy to be cancer. The clinical breast exams also serve to confirm patient-reported lumps and provide an opportunity to teach breast self-awareness skills during the appointment.

Between their Fort Worth location and their state-of-the-art mobile screening clinic, Moncrief provides nearly 10,000 free screenings per year to uninsured and underinsured women throughout North and Central Texas.

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The MammaCare Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation dedicated to training every hand that examines a woman, including her own. The MammaCare Method is the recognized standard for performing and teaching clinical and personal breast examination. MammaCare provides clinical certification services and high-fidelity simulation-based training.

On March 3, 2023, Michelle Annette Wintjen, a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner, became certified as a MammaCare Clinical Breast Examiner for the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in New York. 

Studies of breast cancer symptoms in national healthcare programs confirm that a lump is the earliest and most common sign of breast cancer. It is also known that in between screenings, self-detected breast lumps reveal cancers missed by mammograms. Examinations by practitioners with documeted palpation skills are trained to thoroughly evaluate patient-detected lesions. Certified clinical breast examiners with verified skills are a first line of care reccomended for women with elevated risk risk of breast cancer.

The MammaCare Method of breast examination is the result of decades of research supported in part by the National Cancer Institute and National Science Foundation. It is the recognized standard for practice and training for clinical breast exams skills, competencies and certification. The skill-based program involves guided practice and performance measurement on tactually accurate breast models and on live surrogates. 

Graduates like Mrs.Wintjen earned certification as a MammaCare Clinical Breast Examiner via live, guided, online practice and training in which clinicians meet rigorous performance standards of sensitivity, specificity and exam thoroughness. 

ABOUT 

The MammaCare Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation dedicated to training every hand that examines a woman, including her own. The MammaCare Method is the recognized standard for performing and teaching clinical and personal breast examination. MammaCare provides clinical certification services and high-fidelity simulation-based training.