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Preoperative MRI linked to increase in mastectomies at Mayo Clinic.

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Preoperative MRI linked to increase in mastectomies at Mayo Clinic.(Magnetic resonance imaging)

Article Excerpt
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, made news last spring at a meeting of cancer doctors when a Mayo Clinic oncologist reported that the use of this diagnostic technology appears to increase the number of women who are choosing mastectomy over breast-conserving surgery. The finding is based on a study of early-stage breast cancer patients treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

The rate of mastectomy in the U.S. had been declining steadily since the mid-1980s when a landmark national trial proved it to...

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