SEQUIM — Olympic Medal Center will be the first hospital in the state to offer breast cancer patients a new technology after this year’s Harvest of Hope Wine & Dinner Gala netted $290,350 in one night.

Proceeds from The Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s fundraiser Saturday night more than cover the $175,000 cost of the 3D Clarix Breast Specimen Imager.

The technology gives surgeons a 360-degree view of tumor margins in real time during surgery to ensure all of the abnormal tissue has been removed. That will reduce the need for repeat surgeries.

Dr. Sandra Tatro, the OMC cancer surgeon who had recommended the acquisition, was glad to hear enough had been raised to fund it.

“It will help us take care of folks,” she said.

The 23rd edition of the Sequim Cancer Center fundraiser, which w

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