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Friday, February 20, 2015
Aunt Minnie (2/19, Yee) reports that a study published in the February issue of the journal Radiology suggests that “breast MR is useful for working up suspicious lesions classified as BI-RADS 4 at mammography or ultrasound – and, in fact, can help avoid 92% of unnecessary biopsies.” Included in the study were “340 women with 353 lesions that were found at screening mammography (198) or ultrasound (155).” Researchers found that “breast MR identified all mammographic findings of invasive cancer and 18 of 21 mammographic findings that showed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).”
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