Breast cancer is a potentially fatal disease that affects 20% of all women in their lifetime. Breast cancer prevention and breast cancer screening, measures that are intended to save lives through early detection, are therefore the logical consequence.
What most women and many doctors do not know: The established preventive and screening examinations with traditional mammography are largely useless. This means that women who take part in mammography screening die of breast cancer just as often and just as quickly as women who do not take part in mammography screening.
Some experts are convinced that mammography screening causes more harm than good due to the unavoidable radiation exposure and false positive findings as well as subsequent biopsies. This is why countries such as Switzerland have now discontinued traditional mammography screening.
The Cochrane Collaboration says:
“For these reasons, it no longer seems beneficial to participate in mammography screening.”
Cochrane Collaboration
How can that be? Recent studies show that mammography screening detects dangerous cases of breast cancer too late to save the women affected. On the other hand, many relatively benign changes are found and treated that do not actually require treatment.
MRI mammography is recommended by, among others:
- American Cancer Society (ACS)
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
- European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI)
Why magnetic resonance mammography is superior to X-ray mammography
- Three-dimensional imaging of the breast with good soft tissue contrast
- Good assessability of the breast even with dense glandular tissue
- Early detection of small carcinomas
- Differentiation of fast-growing, aggressive carcinomas from relatively benign ones
- Exclusion of interval carcinomas
- No radiation exposure of the breast
- No painful compression of the breast
- Avoidance of unnecessary biopsies
You can find detailed information in our brochure “Magnetic resonance mammography: Reliable Breast Cancer Screening”. In this brochure, we inform you about the advantages of magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) and the problems of established breast cancer screening in the hope of making breast cancer screening what it was developed to be: An examination that saves lives.
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Magnetic resonance mammography:
Proven: The best method for detecting breast cancer
What most women and doctors also don’t know: Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast can detect these dangerous, fast-growing breast cancers early enough to save lives. Despite this, the MR mammography is rarely recommended by doctors.
The Medical University of Vienna gets to the heart of the matter:
“Breast cancer: MRI gives one hundred percent certainty in early detection”
