Utility & Outcomes of Pre-Operative Screening Breast MRI for Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy

Full Article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.26561 Andrew S. Taliaferro, MD discusses his article that evaluates the utility of breast MRI performed in high-risk patients for the indication of planned bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, with attention to diagnostic performance for breast cancer detection. A secondary aim was to assess the potential impact of breast MRI findings on the decision to perform sentinel lymph node biopsy at the time of prophylactic mastectomy.