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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(17):1275; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.17.1275
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Sarah L. Zielinski

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MRI More Sensitive Than Mammography for Women at High Risk of Breast Cancer

In a new study of breast cancer detection among women who have an inherited susceptibility to the disease, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) found more tumors and tumors of earlier stage than mammography. However, some tumors were found through mammography that were not found with MRI.

For women who have inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes—and are therefore at an increased risk of breast cancer—mammography detects less than half of their tumors. In the largest study to date that compares MRI and mammography in women at high risk of breast cancer, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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