Diffusion-Weighted MRI of the Breast in Women with a History of Mantle Radiation: Does Radiation Alter Apparent Diffusion Coefficient?

Objective: Fibrosis from chest irradiation could lower the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of breast tissue. ADC values of normal breast tissue in high-risk women who underwent mantle radiation before age 30 years were compared with a screening control group matched for breast fibroglandular tissue (FGT).

Methods: In this retrospective study, we reviewed 21 women with a history of mantle radiation who underwent breast MRI examinations between 2008 and 2013, and 20 nonirradiated patients (control group) imaged during the same period with matching FGT and similar age.

Initiating a National Mammographic Screening Program: The Kuwait Experience Training With a US Cancer Center.

Purpose:: To train Kuwait radiologists and technologists in breast imaging to create a Kuwait national mammography screening program (KNMSP) that provides high quality safe mammography services meeting international standards for early detection of small invasive breast cancers in asymptomatic women.

Materials And Methods:: 5 radiologists, 6 technologists and 1 physicist/radiation protection technologist from Kuwait trained at over a 3 year period utilizing Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology guidelines and Food and Drug Administration Mammography Quality Standards Act requirements for education program content. On site visits in Kuwait were provided by radiologists and technologists 3 times during the program.

Comparison of screening CEDM and MRI for women at increased risk for breast cancer: A pilot study.

Objectives: Contrast enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) is a new breast imaging technology increasingly used in the diagnostic setting but its utility in the pure screening setting has not been reported. The goal of this pilot study is to prospectively compare screening CEDM to breast MRI in women with an increased risk for breast cancer.

Methods: In this IRB-approved HIPAA-compliant study, 318 women at increased breast cancer risk were consented (December 2012-May 2015) to undergo CEDM in addition to their scheduled MRI.

MRI appearance of invasive subcentimetre breast carcinoma: benign characteristics are common.

Objective: This study was undertaken to examine the characteristics of cancers detected at the earliest possible point on MRI and to determine their significance.

Methods: This institutional review board-approved Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant retrospective study evaluated invasive breast cancers ≤1 cm histologically. MRI was performed within 6 months before diagnosis.