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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(14):1066-1067; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm074
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Breast MRI Scans Need Standards, Experts Say

Karyn Hede

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Two years ago the Institute of Medicine's National Cancer Policy Board recommended uniform standards for all forms of breast imaging—not just mammography. That advice seems all the more important now that the American Cancer Society is recommending yearly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening for women at high risk of breast cancer. Yet uniform standards for performing breast MRI scans have yet to be developed.

"I would say right now that breast MRI is in the situation that mammography was in the late 1980s," said Edward Hendrick, Ph.D., director of breast imaging research at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. "There are places that do very good breast MRI and there are places that do not-so-good breast MRI."

That lack of standardization, along with a dearth of studies demonstrating whether breast MRI actually saves lives, has many experts questioning whether the American Cancer Society recommendations are perhaps premature.

Hendrick . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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