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Which is considered "high risk" and should have a breast MRI every year?.
American Cancer Society recommends annual breast magnetic resonance imaging to examine any person who has a 20% or higher lifetime risk of breast cancer. I personally recommend that anyone with a ratio of 15% or higher lifetime risk of breast cancer be screened annually with magnetic resonance imaging and mammography. To determine the extent of life-threatening, we must look at the age of the patient, family and personal history. High-risk women include those who have had breast cancer or who have relatives and very close with breast cancer - and his mother, sister or daughter. Breast density is also a factor. Women who have mammographically dense breasts - 50% or more of the glandular tissue is - are at increased risk. Other risk factors are previous biopsy showing some high-risk conditions, or to be carriers of the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. At our center, we have found that with the magnetic resonance imaging, and we detect cancer early in many of the women a very high risk who have had mammography X-ray negative. While those at risk need to be careful, it is important to remember that nearly 200,000 women who develop breast cancer each year in the United States, 70% do not have a family history of disease or other risk factors. Every woman age 40 years or more in need to have annual mammogram, regardless of risk factors.