OTHER IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR THE BREAST – GENERAL INFORMATION
Available today in some centers is the MRI— magnetic resonance imaging. The MRI is a sophisticated and costly scanning tool that can be extremely helpful in diagnosing a wide variety of problems throughout the body, including cancer spread. It is not now recommended for widespread breast cancer screening. In the next couple of years, however, it may be used for so-called high-risk patients—that is, women for whom mammography might not be as effective. Dr. Richard Patt, chief of MRI at the Georgetown University Medical Center, says possible candidates include younger women with very dense breasts that are hard to examine with mammography; older women on estrogen replacement therapy, again because their breasts may become relatively dense; women who have had prior breast surgery or radiation to the breast, whose scarring or other changes make them harder to image; and women with silicone breast implants, in whom mammography might miss a small, blocked region of the breast.
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