MRI Evaluation of the Contralateral Breast in Women with Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer

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Authors

Constance D. Lehman · University of Washington Medical Center

Constantine Gatsonis · Brown University

Christiane Kühl · University of Bonn

R. Edward Hendrick · Northwestern University

Etta D. Pisano · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lucy Hanna · Brown University

Sue Peacock

Abstract

MRI can detect cancer in the contralateral breast that is missed by mammography and clinical examination at the time of the initial breast-cancer diagnosis. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00058058 [ClinicalTrials.gov].).

Topics & Keywords

Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Breast Lesions and Carcinomas MRI in cancer diagnosis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 356, Issue 13, pp. 1295-1303

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa065447

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