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Breast cancer death rates have dropped 39 percent over the past 26 years, according to an Oct. 3 report from the American Cancer Society. Much of that is due to the measures taken for early detection ...

Screening and early diagnosis has an important role in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with breast cancer. Mammography has an established role and has been approved for routine ...

While screening every 2 years with mammography alone had the lowest total costs, it also resulted in only 47 quality-adjusted life years (QALY) gained. However, screening with MRI alone every 4 years ...

What if I Got a Whole-Body MRI? Fred Hutch and UW Medicine radiologists do not provide reinterpretations of whole-body MRIs. If you’ve had a whole-body MRI screening and have a question or concern ...

The utility of annual MRI plus mammogram was investigated in a new meta-analysis delivered at this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, with the goal of optimizing use of MRI by considering ...

MRI screening shows promise for predicting clinically significant prostate cancer (PCa) early on and independently of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assessment. In a recent study published in BMJ ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) screening supplemented by MRI for women with dense breasts led to both greater benefits and increased harms in a model-based comparative effectiveness analysis.

MRI-based prostate cancer screening of the general population does not increase detection of clinically significant prostate cancer, but it does improve the benefit-vs-harm profile of PSA testing ...

For women with extremely dense breasts, screening with MRI alone every 4 years is cost-effective and delivers the greatest benefit, the first study of its kind indicates. Alternatively, if a woman ...

Getting an MRI in between regular mammogram checkups could be an effective way for women with extremely dense breast tissue to learn whether they have cancer, a new study found. Women who have ...

At repeat screening, only a low proportion of MRI scans indicated suspicion of clinically significant prostate cancer. Among men receiving their second biennial prostate cancer screening in a Swedish ...