Role of magnetic resonance imaging in breast cancer management
| Autor: | Shelly Sharma, Shikha Panwar, Ashish Dey, Madhavi Chandra, S.K. Agarwal, Selvi Radhakrishna, Khushpreet Kaur, Seema Sud, Purvish M. Parikh, Kshitij Saxena |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Breast imaging lcsh:RC254-282 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Breast cancer identify nonresponders medicine Breast MRI Mammography skin and connective tissue diseases neo-adjuvant setting Average risk medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry high-risk screening Ultrasound Cancer Magnetic resonance imaging lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens medicine.disease X-ray mammogram 030104 developmental biology Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Original Article Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | South Asian Journal of Cancer South Asian Journal of Cancer, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 69-71 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2278-4306 2278-330X |
| Popis: | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is primarily used as a supplemental tool to breast screening with mammography or ultrasound. A breast MRI is mainly used for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, to help measure the size of the cancer, look for other tumors in the breast, and to check for tumors in the opposite breast. For certain women at high risk for breast cancer, a screening MRI is recommended along with a yearly mammogram. MRI is known to give some false positive results which mean more test and/or biopsies for the patient. Thus, although breast MRI is useful for women at high risk, it is rarely recommended as a screening test for women at average risk of breast cancer. Also, breast MRI does not show calcium deposits, known as micro-calcifications which can be a sign of breast cancer. |
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