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Breast Cancer
MRI useful for assessing patients with suspected cancer
March 24th, 2005
If a mammogram or sonogram suggests that a woman has breast cancer, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) should be done to help determine whether there actually is a cancer and if so, what are the woman's best treatment options, radiologists recommend. Jonathan I. Wiener, MD, Department of Radiology, Boca Raton Community Hospital, and colleagues found that MR images, which were acquired and analyzed in a specific way, can help identify if a lesion is benign or malignant and can show cancers that would otherwise be missed. "This is the first time a prospective study has been done that shows that MRI (using a contrast agent) can work in a real-life...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-24)
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