The most accurate method of detecting breast cancer
breast cancer
Breast cancer patients from 100% annually, more than 45% of cases leads to death. People with a significant increase in risk – it’s women who are “carriers” of mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.Experts have raised the alarm – a major cause of cancer deaths is due to the small number of screening, diagnostic and preventive measures, whose effect on early diagnosis and therapy of cancer, is invaluable. If you have a family history of cancer, this is the first signal to perform a genetic test . People with a genetic mutation have a 50% risk of transmitting this defect to offspring. Nevertheless, a positive genetic test result does not mean that the disease will develop. If any family members suffer from cancer, the risk of inheriting the disease is greatly increased at the same while the disease occurs equally in people genetically predisposed not to cancer. When we think about breast examination, comes to mind, mammography or ultrasound. Meanwhile, there is much more sensitive technique – magnetic resonance imaging. This test is very accurate and most importantly fast way to detect changes. According to numerous reports, x-ray mammography can not detect the 10 – 45% of cancer foci. MRI also has the sensitivity to four times higher than the classical diagnosis. The magnetic field and radio waves of magnetic resonance imaging can detect changes in size, even at 2 mm – this is of great importance in the diagnosis of neoplastic changes, in particular, women with mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2, because in such cases, the cancer is growing much faster. In addition, MRI is a safe method – getting an accurate picture of internal organs without using X-rays.
- Screening patients at high risk of developing breast cancer; - a group of women who have a family history of breast cancer, especially in carriers of BRCA1 gene mutation; - breast implants - for breast cancer, the search for outbreaks in other parts of the body.
