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December 23, 2009, Wednesday
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AS many as 42 percent of American women who are at intermediate or high risk of getting breast cancer decide not to get recommended MRI screening, even if it is offered for free, US researchers said yesterday.
A quarter of the women in the study who were offered the free screening test decided not to get it because they feel claustrophobic in the tunnel-like scanners.
Many also said they declined because of costs involved if the test reveals something that needs to be followed up.
Some said they simply could not spare the time.
"Very early on we were surprised to notice that very few women would accept that invitation, even though it would be no cost to them," said Dr Wendie Berg, a breast imaging specialist at American Radiology Services in Lutherville, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University, whose study appears in the journal Radiology.
Her team studied why high-risk women who are recommended for the more sensitive MRI breast screening test do not get it.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, can help identify early breast cancer in high-risk women who tend to develop cancer earlier than women at average risk.
Berg said the study points to the need for alternative ways of screening high-risk women.
That includes training more experts in breast ultrasound, a quicker, more convenient test.
More than 400,000 women in the world die from breast cancer each year.
A quarter of the women in the study who were offered the free screening test decided not to get it because they feel claustrophobic in the tunnel-like scanners.
Many also said they declined because of costs involved if the test reveals something that needs to be followed up.
Some said they simply could not spare the time.
"Very early on we were surprised to notice that very few women would accept that invitation, even though it would be no cost to them," said Dr Wendie Berg, a breast imaging specialist at American Radiology Services in Lutherville, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University, whose study appears in the journal Radiology.
Her team studied why high-risk women who are recommended for the more sensitive MRI breast screening test do not get it.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, can help identify early breast cancer in high-risk women who tend to develop cancer earlier than women at average risk.
Berg said the study points to the need for alternative ways of screening high-risk women.
That includes training more experts in breast ultrasound, a quicker, more convenient test.
More than 400,000 women in the world die from breast cancer each year.
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