For women with genetic risk, twice-a-year MRI beats mammograms

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is far more effective at detecting early breast cancers in young women with a high-risk genetic profile than mammograms alone, according to a research team based at the University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Washington, Seattle.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news