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Review
. 2017;10(3):175-180.
doi: 10.1007/s12254-017-0341-5. Epub 2017 Jun 28.

New diagnostic tools for breast cancer

Pascal A T Baltzer  1 , Panagiotis Kapetas  1 , Maria Adele Marino  1 , Paola Clauser  1
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Review

New diagnostic tools for breast cancer

Pascal A T Baltzer et al. Memo. 2017.

Abstract

Imaging plays a major role in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of breast cancer. Findings that require further assessment will be detected both at screening and curative mammography. Most findings that are further worked up tend to yield benign diagnoses. Consequently, there is an ongoing search for new tools to reduce recalls and unnecessary biopsies while maintaining or improving cancer detection rates. The clinically most promising methods in this respect are described and discussed in this review.

Keywords: Breast cancer; Contrast-enhanced mammography; Elastography; MRI; Tomosynthesis.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest

P.A.T. Baltzer, P. Kapetas, M.A. Marino, and P. Clauser declare that they have no competing interests.

Ethical standards

This chapter does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
A 48-year-old woman with invasive ductal breast cancer, G3. The lesion (dashed circle) presents as an ill-defined hypoechogenic lesion on B‑mode ultrasound (a) that is associated with high SWV (4.6 m/s), coded red on the parametric ARFI overlay (b). The MRI-DWI scan of the same lesion shows a hyperintense lesion (c) corresponding to restricted diffusivity (1 * 10−3 mm2/s) that appears dark on the quantitative ADC map (d)
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Breast imaging workflow. Boxes represent typical steps in the breast imaging workflow, logical steps are connected by arrows. Circles indicate where the new imaging tools discussed in this article can be of help. ARFI acoustic radiation force impulse, DBT digital breast tomosynthesis, DWI diffusion-weighted imaging
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