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More detailed MRI to detect early breast cancer begins UK trials

Exclusive: multiparametric MRI designed to be more comfortable and effective in early detection

  • New breast cancer scan is designed with women’s comfort in mind

A new, more comfortable way of detecting breast cancer, which could enable tumours to be identified at an earlier stage, has entered UK trials.

About one in eight British women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Although an X-ray test called a mammogram can spot tiny cancers in post-menopausal breasts, they are less effective in younger women whose breasts contain more dense, fibrous tissue and less fat, because cancers and fibrous tissue both show up as solid white areas on X-ray.

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