MRIs Can Better Detect Cancer in Women With Dense Breasts, Study Finds
19 August 2024 at 7:56Many women who have mammograms get normal results that come with a caveat: They are told they have dense breast tissue, which can make their scans harder to read and could leave cancer undetected. Sometimes those patients are advised to follow up by getting ultrasounds or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, but for many, it is unclear what their next step should be. Now, a new study provides strong evidence that supplemental MRIs are more effective in finding tumors in these women than ma...MRIs Can Better Detect Cancer in Women With Dense Breasts, Study Finds