“When I get concerned calls or texts from my family and friends, I tell them that I actually feel safest at the hospital,” says Heather Greenwood, MD, breast imaging radiologist and faculty in the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.
Early on in the pandemic, many people put off routine medical appointments, including annual mammography screenings. In fact, UCSF postponed all screening imaging studies (screening mammography, lung cancer screening, colon cancer screening, DEXA) from March 4 through May 4. Now that it is August and cases continue to rise, we see that COVID-19 could be with us for quite a while. With this in mind, it’s important to remind people that it is safe to get a mammogram during the COVID-19 pandemic as long as you are not feeling sick or have COVID-19 symptoms.
At UCSF Radiology, we have protocols in place to keep all…
