Borstkankerscreening met MRI: vooral voor vrouwen met verhoogd risico

- In some women, the density of breast tissue is a limiting factor in the detection of early-stage breast cancer by palpation and mammography. This is the case in young women, for example.

- MRI sensitivity is not influenced by tissue density. For this reason, it would appear that young women with a genetic or familial predisposition to breast cancer would benefit from MRI screening.

- A series of prospective studies has shown that the sensitivity of MRI is almost twice that of mammography in these women. As a result, the disease stage in those patients screened by MRI is lower than in the patients screened by a different method.

- In well-defined groups MRI of the breasts may be an important additional screening tool in women at increased risk of breast cancer.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2006;150:1449-53