MRI Beats Mammograms at Spotting Early Breast Cancer

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"We don't know yet how much MRI screening will add and at what price this comes, economically and psychologically, [because of the] emotional burden due to increased absolute amount of unnecessary recalls," said Dutch radiologist Ritse M. Mann, of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen.

But Mann, the co-author of an accompanying journal editorial, said that "MRI can no longer be regarded as [just] an adjunct to mammography, even though this needs considerable funding."

"MRI screening will detect malignancies more often and earlier and will increase breast cancer survival. Therefore, it is time to start a large multicenter trial on MRI screening for breast cancer in the general population," Mann said.

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