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Using magnetic resonance imaging to screen women ages 35-60 with a family history of breast cancer is a cost-effective intervention for radiology practices, experts assert. Dutch scientists reached their conclusion by conducting an economic evaluation, using a simulator to estimate costs and lives saved across a cohort of 10 million women. They determined that using MRI to screen patients with a 20% or greater familial risk of breast cancer every 18 months does, in fact, make economic sense.
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