Piper Breast Center

The Piper Breast Center has established itself as a role model and leader in breast health care. We provide the expertise, technology, information and support women need to make informed choices about breast care in a comfortable, private and respectful setting. We pride ourselves on providing timely information and diagnosis.

Services we offer include:

• completely digital mammography
• genetic counseling
• diagnostic imaging
• breast MRI and MRI-guided breast biopsies
• sentinel lymph node mapping
• clinical breast examination
• breast health clinic
• lymphedema clinic.

Mammogram guidelines

Allina Hospitals & Clinics statement on mammography screening

The United States Preventive Services Task Force is one of several different groups that makes recommendations about when women should have screening mammograms.

The physicians and staff of the Piper Breast Center have reviewed the recent recommendations. Other groups that we respect, including the American Cancer Society, continue to support the current recommendations which are based on a number of research studies. For that reason, the breast programs of Allina Hospitals & Clinics will not be changing our practices for screening mammograms at this time.

As always, if you have any questions about the health of your breasts, please talk to your doctor.

To speak with someone at the Piper Breast Center, please call 612-863-3150.

Recognized for excellent breast care services

Piper Breast Center first in Minnesota to receive national accreditation

Piper Breast Center is the first in Minnesota to be accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

NAPBC is a consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving the care and objectively monitoring the outcomes of breast care programs. NAPBC-accredited programs offer comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for patients with breast disease.

Piper Breast Center is designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

Piper Breast Center has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

To achieve this designation, breast centers must be fully accredited in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy.

Piper Breast Center
Virginia Piper Cancer Institute
Abbott Northwestern Hospital
800 East 28th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-863-3150