New MRI Technique Could Mean Fewer Breast Biopsies In High-Risk Women

A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer and colleagues have developed a method that, applied in MRI scans of the breast, could spare some women with increased breast cancer risk the pain and stress of having to endure a biopsy of a questionable lump or lesion. The universal technology will give radiologists greater confidence in visually classifying a lesion as malignant or benign.

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Filed under: Breast Cancer on June 30th, 2009