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Breast Cancer - Arab Medical Association Against Cancer

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<strong>Breast</strong> Imaging 69Woman, Mutation BRCA1 CarrierMammographic and sonographic BIRADS 3 IMAGEBiopsy : Invasive CarcinomaFigure:ConclusionDuring the past ten years, technical improvements have been essential for breast imaging : Evaluationof digital mammography proved to be competent for breast cancer screening, improvement ofsonographic intallations, extension and evaluation of <strong>Breast</strong> MRI, diversification of percutaneousbiopsy with all modalities of guidance, new technical developments like tomosynthesis, MRIspectroscopy. If primary senologic evaluation always lies on clinical exam, mammography andultrasonography, it’s now relatively clear that MRI can be essential in care of breast cancer forpreoperative staging, evaluation of neoajuvant therapy response, supervision of treated breasts, butalso for screening of women with high risk for breast cancer like genetic mutations BRCA1 and 2carriers

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