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A Family Affair
Early detection helps woman prevent a
breast cancer three-peat BY ELISE SIMS

W

ith a directive
from her sister
in the back of
her mind, Cathy
Tinsley, vice president of medical data, analytics
and economics for the hospitals of
Community Healthcare System, went
to the Women's Diagnostic Center in
Munster on October 16, 2015, for her
annual mammogram.
Two years earlier, one of Tinsley's
two sisters, then 44, had been diagnosed with breast cancer and went on
to have 18 weeks of chemotherapy and
then 12 weeks of radiation. Some 40
years before that, her paternal grandmother also had breast cancer and a
double mastectomy.
"I have been diligent about going
in and having my annual screening
mammogram, especially since my sister makes me go," says Tinsley, a busy
wife and mother of three teenage boys.
"I was sitting in the waiting room
after the screening when they called
me into the consult room to give me
my results."

Quick Biopsy Results

The certified breast health navigator
told Tinsley that Mary Nicholson, MD,
medical director of breast imaging services for Community Healthcare System,
who performs breast MRI, ultrasound
and stereotactic core biopsies, had found
something suspicious.

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Cathy Tinsley and her husband, Jim, with her sons-from left, Eric, Jack and
Tommy-at a family wedding at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend.

"You hear the 'cancer' word and you
have to stop and think, how is this going
to affect my life, my kids, my husband,
my family, my work?" Tinsley says. "All
those things were swirling around in my
head, especially after having seen it up
close and personal with my sister."
One week later, Tinsley had a biopsy.
On Halloween morning, not even
24 hours later, the certified breast
health navigator called her to tell her

that they did find something and she
would need to meet with the next necessary physicians.
Nicholson says results are available
the next day for the majority of biopsies
performed at the Women's Diagnostic
Centers. "The sooner we get the results,
the sooner our patients get to treatment," she says.
"Pinpointing breast cancer swiftly
and sooner is part of our commitment



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