Breast Cancer

MR mammography: More sensitive detection, but higher false-positive rates

Published in Elder Law Weekly, June 16th, 2004

Magnetic resonance (MR) mammography has a high level of sensitivity in detecting breast cancer lesions in women with dense breasts, but it also comes with a high false-positive rate, according to a study in the journal European Radiology.

Researchers in Belgium compared the ability of MR mammography, traditional mammography, and ultrasound to estimate the extent of breast cancer in patients with dense breasts or whether dense tissue would thwart these imaging techniques, yielding either inconclusive or false-positive results.

M. van Goethem and colleagues looked at lesion detection rates of the three techniques in 67 patients with dense...

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