Who is breast MRI for?
Breast MRI isn’t used routinely for breast cancer screening. But breast MRI may be recommended if: You’re at high risk of breast cancer, defined as a lifetime risk of 20 percent to 25 percent or greater. You’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer and your doctor wishes to determine the extent of the cancer. Your doctor finds a suspicious area on your mammogram. You or your doctor can feel a mass or other lump in your breast, but it’s not detectable on mammogram or ultrasound. You notice a breast lump or other breast change after breast surgery or radiation therapy and it’s not detectable on mammogram or ultrasound. Your doctor wants to monitor your opposite breast after you’ve been newly diagnosed or treated for breast cancer in the other breast. You have a suspected leak or rupture of a breast implant. You have a strong family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer. You received chest radiation for Hodgkin’s disease before age 30. You have very dense breast tissue and your prior bre
