MRI Changes Breast Cancer Treatment Choice; Increases Time To Treatment
More than a quarter of breast cancer patients who had an MRI examination before their initial surgical treatment had their treatment change, according to a study out of Yale University School of Medicine.The study included 110 who had an MRI examination before treatment and 374 who did not undergo an MRI examination. “MRI prompted biopsy of 70 sites in 44 patients, said Carol Lee, MD, an author of the study, now at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NY.
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Filed under: Breast Cancer on April 13th, 2008