JAMA Study, Editorial Caution Routine Use Of MRI To Detect Breast Cancer
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Future studies need to establish whether MRI as a breast cancer detection tool corresponds with reductions in mortality before it is applied broadly to at-risk patients, a JAMA study and accompanying editorial conclude
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