Breast Cancer Screening with MRI — What Are the Data for Patients at High Risk?

Abstract

More than 275,000 women in the United States will receive a diagnosis of breast cancer this year, and 40,110 women will die of the disease.¹ Randomized trials have shown that the use of screening mammography in the general population reduces mortality associated with breast cancer by at least 24 percent.² Cancer is detected in 5 to 7 of every 1000 women on the first screening mammogram and in 2 or 3 of every 1000 women who undergo regular screening mammography. Although the average lifetime risk of breast cancer in an American woman is one in seven,¹ the risk increases in . . .