[新聞] NYT: Call to Increase M.R.I. Use for …
http://tinyurl.com/2fbujn
The New York Times
Call to Increase M.R.I. Use for Breast Exam
Article Tools Sponsored By
By DENISE GRADY
Published: March 28, 2007
Two reports being published today call for greatly expanded use of M.R.I.
scans in women who have breast cancer or are at high risk for it.
The recommendations do not apply to most healthy women, who have only an
average risk of developing the disease.
Even so, the new advice could add a million or more women a year to those who
need breast magnetic resonance imaging — a demand that radiologists are not
yet equipped to meet, researchers say. The scans require special equipment,
software and trained radiologists to read the results, and may not be
available outside big cities.
Breast M.R.I. costs $1,000 to $2,000, and sometimes more — 10 times the cost
of mammography — so a million more scans a year would cost at least $1
billion. It is sometimes covered by insurance and Medicare, sometimes not.
One report is a set of new guidelines (by American Cancer Society) for using
M.R.I. in women at high risk for breast cancer, and the other is a study in
The New England Journal of Medicine showing that in women who have newly
diagnosed cancer in one breast, M.R.I. can find tumors in the other breast
that mammograms miss.
（繼續閱讀：http://tinyurl.com/2fbujn）
參考資料：ACS http://tinyurl.com/228d47
NEJM http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/NEJMoa065447
--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc)
◆ From: 140.129.59.49
medstudent 近期熱門文章
PTT職涯區 即時熱門文章
106
189
