Dear AuntMinnie Member,
MR mammography is one of the most exciting new technologies available in the fight against breast cancer. But questions remain about the exact role that it can play in detecting breast disease.
Should MR mammography be used as a screening tool for women without risk factors for cancer? How does it complement x-ray mammography and ultrasound? And what role can computer-aided detection play?
We try to answer some of those questions with a white paper on MR mammography that we're featuring this week in our MRI Digital Community. The article uses a case study of a 42-year-old woman with breast cancer to demonstrate the typical characteristics of malignant lesions on MR mammography images.
You'll find tables on MR mammography scan protocols, signal-intensity curve characteristics, and BI-RADS classification types, as well as a table on the types of breast cancers typically encountered. Images in the paper illustrate the contrast enhancement patterns found on MRM exams that are telltale signs of cancer.
Finally, the discussion section of the paper proposes a model for how MR mammography can be most effectively used in a screening environment for high-risk patients. Read all about it by clicking here, or visit our MRI Digital Community at mri.auntminnie.com.
