ROME, Ga., Oct. 15, 2025 – Atrium Health Floyd + Harbin Clinic, the region’s breast health experts, are urging women who have put off getting a mammogram to schedule the lifesaving screening during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends that women should begin scheduling a screening mammogram annually when they turn 40. A screening mammogram, which delivers a low dose of radiation, remains the best tool in the early detection of breast cancer, designed for women who are showing no symptoms.
Screening mammograms are available at The Breast Center at Atrium Health Floyd, Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center, Women’s Imaging Suite at Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center, Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd Northwest Georgia Medical Clinic OB/GYN.
If time and travel and an issue for you, The Breast Center also operates a Mobile Mammography Coach equipped with state-of-the-art, digital mammography equipment that serves women in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama.
The mobile coach is staffed by clinicians who are specially trained in screening mammography. The coach offers a unique advantage for those who need a mammogram but want to minimize lost work time because of travel requirements.
Atrium Health Floyd’s Mobile Mammography Coach is traveling to multiple locations this month, including:
Oct 17 – Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct 17 - Harbin Clinic (Main), 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct 23 – Food Lion, Armuchee, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oct 27 – Atrium Health Floyd Primary Care, Summerville, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oct 29 - Atrium Health Floyd Primary Care, Calhoun, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oct 31 – Atrium Health Floyd Primary Care, Cartersville, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Breast Center at Atrium Health Floyd provides a full range of diagnostic services, including:
- Clinical Breast Exams – Our specially trained providers will conduct a physical breast exam by hand during your visit. It is recommended that women as young as age 20 should receive a clinical breast exam every one to three years.
- GeniusTM 3D Mammography –This provides detailed, layer-by-layer images of breast tissue, allow for better detection of breast cancer in women with dense breast tissue
- Genetic Testing and Counseling – Women who meet certain criteria are encouraged to undergo genetic testing and counseling to find out if they carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 breast cancer gene mutation.
- Breast Ultrasound – This procedure uses high-energy sound waves to form a picture of body tissue called a sonogram or ultrasonography. A breast ultrasound procedure is used to provide more information about an abnormality.
- Breast MRI – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is recommended for further evaluation of abnormalities detected by mammography and for finding early breast cancers not detected by other tests, especially in women at high risk for cancer and women with dense breast tissue.
. For more information about services or to schedule a mammogram, call 706-509-6840.
