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Breast Cancer Diagnosis
MRI contralateral breast screening reveals occult breast cancer
December 1st, 2005
A recent study showed a benefit for MRI contralateral breast screening to reveal occult breast cancer. Investigators in the United States sought "to estimate the added cancer yield of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over mammography in the contralateral breast of patients with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer." C. D. Lehman and colleagues "conducted a prospective, international study of mammography and MRI in women with a recent diagnosis of unilateral breast cancer." "Each subject received a mammogram, clinical breast exam (CBE), and MRI of the unaffected breast within a 90-day time period," stated the authors. "Definitive diagnosis of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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