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Breast MRI surveillance reduces disease recurrence

AuntMinnie

Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In Images in a 40-year-old woman who underwent breast-conserving surgery for left breast cancer and a surveillance breast MRI examination 25 months after surgery. (A)

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CEM improves breast cancer detection rate over low-energy mammography

AuntMinnie

A team led by Joao Horvat, MD, from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that CEM depicted 90% of breast cancers compared with 10% on low-energy mammograms alone and 50% on low-energymammogramswith whole-breast ultrasound. Their study included data collected between 2014 and 2019 from 468 women with a median age of 54.

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Unlock the advantage of time across the breast health continuum of care

The British Institute of Radiology

The use of comprehensive imaging using co-registered functional and morphological information can reduce reading time to seven – ten minutes versus thirty to sixty minutes for a standard breast MRI [4] , [5]. 2014 Jun 25;311(24):2499-507. [3] What Is a Breast MRI? 106(10), 2014. [7] 3] Olivia DiPrete, Ana P.

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Advocates, researchers herald federal breast density notification law

AuntMinnie

Imaging societies such as the American College of Radiology (ACR) recommend supplemental breast MRI for women with dense breasts. While her mammogram yielded negative results, a subsequent ultrasound found breast cancer. Berg had her own breast cancer experience in 2014.

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Ultrasound detects more cancers in high-risk women with dense breasts

AuntMinnie

These findings can help breast imagers estimate the expected outcomes of supplemental ultrasound screening according to a woman’s risk level and assist in determining which women with dense breasts may be good candidates for supplemental ultrasound screening after a negative mammogram,” Sprague told AuntMinnie.com.