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MRIs urged in breast cancer detection.
Byline: Judy Peres
Mar. 28--Women who are at high risk for breast cancer should be screened with MRI in addition to mammograms, according to new guidelines from the American Cancer Society.
In addition, top researchers recommended Tuesday that anyone recently diagnosed with cancer in one breast should have magnetic resonance imaging to make sure she's not harboring an invisible tumor in the other. Their study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that more than 3 percent of new breast cancer patients had cancer in the other breast that standard mammograms and physical examination missed.
Together the developments represent the latest step in the evolution of medical thinking about the use of MRI -- a sophisticated and expensive tool -- to find breast tumors. But experts caution that healthy women at low or average risk should continue to rely on mammography and physical exams to detect signs of cancer.
Widespread use of MRI, they note, could detect non-threatening cancers that don't need to be treated and…
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