MRI detects missed breast cancers
By Nathan Seppa
From Chicago, at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Women who carry a genetic mutation predisposing them to breast cancer should rely on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) instead of mammography for their regular screenings, a new study suggests. But for women who don’t harbor a mutation in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, the normal forms of which suppress cancer, the high cost of MRI may not be justified, says Christiane K. Kuhl of the University of Bonn in Germany.