A study in the UK medical journal, The Lancet, suggests magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may someday surpass mammograms for breast cancer detection.
Researchers found that in 167 women with a certian type of breast cancer who had reecived both a mammogram and an MRI, 56 percent were diagnosed by mammogram, when the MRI was accurate for 92 percent of subjects.
The only problem now is teaching radiologists on how to read breast MRI’s, says lead author of the study Christine Kuhl, M.D.
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