MRI: breast cancer
Under the NHS R&D Priorities in Cancer Programme, the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group led a multi-centre trial of dynamic MRI as a method of screening women at genetic risk of breast cancer.
This study demonstrated that MRI provides an effective means of screening women at high risk of breast cancer.
Published in 2005, it showed that MRI was twice as sensitive as X-ray mammography in detecting cancer in women who had a 50 per cent risk of carrying a breast cancer predisposition gene mutation.
The paper 'Screening with magnetic resonance imaging and mammography of a UK population at high familial risk of breast cancer: a prospective multicentre cohort study' was published in 'The Lancet' on 21 May 2005.
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Image credit: Breast cancer cell; Anne Weston