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Get annual breast MRI, experts tell many women

By Warren King
Seattle Times medical reporter

The American Cancer Society is recommending that women whose close relatives have had breast cancer should be screened annually with an MRI as well as a mammogram -- part of new guidelines that could affect as many as 1.4 million women.

The recommendation, prompted by advice from an expert panel, even includes some women whose aunts and grandmothers have had the disease -- in addition to those with mothers and sisters who had breast cancer.

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Cancer Society Recommends Breast MRIs

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 28, 2007

ATLANTA (AP) -- Up to 1.4 million U.S. women -- those with an unusually high risk of developing breast cancer -- should get annual MRIs as well as mammograms, the American Cancer Society advises in new guidelines.

And a new medical study suggests that all women newly diagnosed with breast cancer should get MRIs, too. The scans revealed cancers in the opposite breast that were missed by ordinary mammograms in 3 percent of these cancer survivors.

The study came out after the cancer society developed its guidelines, which are the first to recommend MRI for screening women who show no signs of cancer.

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The Evolving Role of MRI in the Detection and Evaluation of Breast Cancer

Robert A. Smith, Ph. D.
March 28, 2007

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MRI Evaluation of the Contralateral Breast in Women with Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer

March 28, 2007

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American Cancer Society Guidelines for Breast Screening with MRI as an Adjunct to Mammography

March 28, 2007

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