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CHICAG0 -- Breast cancer patients who receive magnetic resonance imaging after breast conservation surgery should have the contralateral breast scanned at the same time, Dr. Christiane Kuhl said at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
This is particularly important in North America, where the practice of breast MRI tends to be unilateral, as opposed to the European trend of bilateral imaging after surgery.
"Women with cancer in one breast have about a 6% chance of developing it in the other. With MRI, we seem to be able to detect these lesions much earlier than with mammography or ultrasound," Dr. Kuhl, professor of radiology at the University of Bonn (Germany), told this newspaper.
Dr. Kuhl outlined her ...