MRIs Spot Breast Cancer

For women at high risk for breast cancer, a new study supports existing research showing that MRI is extremely useful in detecting breast cancer.

The latest study compared the three screening methods of mammography, ultrasound, and MRI in detecting breast cancer in high risk women. The American Cancer Society already asserts that women at high risk will benefit from adding MRI to mammography procedures. The current study, published in the August issue of Radiology, does not break new ground but does add evidence about the advantages of adding MRIs to the screening process.

So far, using MRIs along with mammography can be justified only with high risk women because of the higher cost of MRIs, the risk involved in injecting contrast material needed to display very small lesions, and the biopsies required to rule out false-positives.

For technological reasons, MRIs are often able to detect cancers that mammography misses, but MRIs should not replace mammograms, which do detect cases that may be missed by MRI.

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Yahoo! Health: Breast Cancer News
TUESDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News)

posted by Jessica Silver, MAOM, L.Ac.

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