Researchers from University of Milan describe findings in breast cancer epidemiology

Investigators publish new data in the report "Breast MR imaging in women at high-risk of breast cancer. Is something changing in early breast cancer detection. In the last few years, several papers have addressed the introduction of contrast-enhanced MR imaging for screening women at high risk for breast cancer. Taking in consideration five prospective studies, on 3,571 screened women with hereditary predisposition to the disease and 9,652 rounds, we found that 168 patients were diagnosed with breast cancer (155 screen-detected, eight interval, and five cancers excluded from analysis) with a detection rate per year of 1.7%," scientists in Italy report.

"These cancers...

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