Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) helps the doctor identify cancer lesions and other suspicious areas which are difficult to detect on a mammogram or ultrasound of the breasts. The test may be ordered for women who have been newly diagnosed with breast cancer. This helps breast surgeons plan the best approach to surgery. The findings may influence the treatment plan both before and after surgery.
Here’s a general guide to getting an MRI done prior your breast surgery procedure:
Who May Need An MRI before Having Breast Surgery?
Why You Need An MRI Scan before Having Breast Surgery?
About MRI Scan of the Breasts
How Much Does An MRI Cost?
The price range of getting an MRI done at Al Zahra Cancer Center in Dubai will never burn a hole in your pocket. Planning ahead is best. You can call around and book an appointment as per your convenience and comfort.
Prior to surgery, use of breast MRI is not routine and often this test is recommended to the women with dense breasts because it becomes harder to see cancer and other abnormalities on mammogram or ultrasound. Additionally, breast MRI also helps in detecting additional findings in women before surgery.
Breast MRI helps in detecting additional breast cancer if any of the women who do not have dense breasts. It also helps in detecting additional cancer in the area of the breast not near the initially diagnosed breast cancer or in the opposite breast.
Therefore, it is clear that breast MRI is useful for evaluation prior to undergoing breast cancer surgery, regardless the breasts of the women are dense or not.
If you have recently been diagnosed with early breast cancer and are working with your doctor to plan your surgery and other treatments, you should consider a breast MRI. This helps best breast surgeons at Al Zahra Cancer Center in Dubai to plan suitable treatment for you.