Elevated-risk women refuse MRI breast cancer screening

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 12/21/2009 - 23:00

(Radiological Society of North America) In a new study, 42 percent of women eligible for breast cancer screening with MRI declined to undergo the procedure.


 

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