Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of metastatic breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common type of tumor in women and an important cause of mortality in the female population. The early and precise diagnosis, staging, and treatment of this neoplasia are essential for public health purposes. Technological development, for example, of whole-body magnetic res...

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Published in:Cancer management and research 2018-01, Vol.10, p.6743-6756
Main Authors: Godinho, Marcos Vieira, Lopes, Flavia Paiva Proença Lobo, Costa, Flavia Martins
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bone diseases
Bone marrow
Breast cancer
Cancer metastasis
Care and treatment
Cell proliferation
Chemotherapy
Diagnostic imaging
diffusion
Feasibility studies
heterogeneity
hypercellularity
Liver
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
Mortality
Necrosis
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Patients
Prognosis
Prostate cancer
Public health
Review
staging
Tomography
Tumors
Women
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Summary:Breast cancer is the most common type of tumor in women and an important cause of mortality in the female population. The early and precise diagnosis, staging, and treatment of this neoplasia are essential for public health purposes. Technological development, for example, of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging, made possible the adoption of new imaging modalities for a better approach for these patients. This imaging modality is helpful to staging, to therapy response assessment, and to the study of therapeutic changes in bone marrow, because it gives, at the same time, anatomical information using T1- and T2-weighted images, with high spatial resolution and tissue contrast, as well as functional sequences (diffusion-weighted images), which make possible the detection of hypercellular viable tumors.
ISSN:1179-1322
1179-1322
DOI:10.2147/cmar.s167924