Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer
death for women in the United States. Before the introduction of widespread mammographic …

Background Screening MRI as an adjunct to mammography is recommended by the ACS for
patients with a lifetime risk for breast cancer> 20%. While the benefits are clear, MRI …

Mammography remains the only validated screening tool for breast cancer, however, there
are limitations to mammography. One of the limitations of mammography is the variable …

When the breast containing cancer is treated by mastectomy, issues of multifocality and
multicentricity of disease are obviated by removal of the entire breast. When breast …

Breast MRI is being used more frequently for advanced screening for breast cancer. Patients
may be at increased risk, or are symptomatic, with nonsuspicious mammograms. There is …

BACKGROUND: We sought to determine factors that predict the use of breast magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) surveillance in women previously treated for breast cancer and …

For the woman with a newly diagnosed early stage breast cancer, the routine use of pre-
operative breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is not indicated beyond conventional …

An audit of a breast imaging practice must be based on data with accepted definitions and
rules so that the comparisons between breast imaging facilities and interpretive staff are …

Disease conditions of the breast and the surgery to treat them are common. The lifetime risk
for a woman to develop breast cancer is 12%. 1 Silverstein and colleagues 2 estimated that …

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