South Shore Magazine
Russell Kelley, M.D. and Carmel Shields, Executive Vice President
Deborah Ribak is a lucky woman. When the 42 year old from Easton felt a lump in her breast in June of 2008, she wasn’t overly concerned. Having survived an early round of ductal carcinoma in situ in her twenties and a number of benign growths over the years, Ribak knew the drill. Rather than expediting her annual appointment already scheduled for the fall, she was prepared for watchful waiting. What Ribak wasn’t prepared for was the failure of the standard breast health screening technology to provide her with a conclusive result.
Like most women in her situation, she assumed that either mammography or ultrasound would offer the sophistication to give her clarity. She was wrong. It took breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at Shields MRI, a unit of Shields Health Care Group, to provide the image that ultimately saved her life.