Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment are important health care issues in the Industrialized
World. About 180,000 new breast cancers are discovered annually in the United States …

T HE MAMMOGRAM remains the only test that has been proven to reduce mortality of breast
cancer. Nevertheless, mammography is limited in breasts that are difficult to image, such as …

Breast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is increasingly being performed for a variety of
indications, most commonly with the goal of detecting breast cancer. Percutaneous biopsy …

Early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer are essential for successful treatment.
Currently mammography and ultrasound are the basic imaging techniques for the detection …

Early breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies conducted in the early to mid-1980s
attempted to distinguish malignant breast lesions from benign lesions and normal breast …

OBJECTIVE. The aim of our study was to differentiate benign from malignant breast lesions
that had been detected exclusively on MR imaging by analyzing qualitative and quantitative …

BACKGROUND: Screening mammography has led to earlier diagnosis of breast cancer;
however, the increased tissue density of young women can complicate mammographic …

Techniques for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the breast have been evolving over the
past decade. The opportunities for integration of MR imaging into clinical breast cancer …

OBJECTIVE. In July 2011, the provincial government of Ontario, Canada, approved funding
for the addition of annual breast MRI to mammography screening for all women 30–69 years …