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And for breast cancer patients, that means getting yearly mammograms. But researchers at the University of Washington Medical Center now report that women who have had breast cancer can improve their chances of detecting new tumors even more by adding another screening tool to their regular checkups-- an MRI. >> Because of its benefits, the American Cancer Society has recommended its use in particular high- risk women, that they have screening breast MRI once a year with their mammogram. But today, the recommendations have been that it be used in those women, for instance, who have a known gene mutation, or those women who have a family history of breast cancer greater than 20 to 25 percent based on a very strong family history. >> And until now, experts have not advised that women with a personal history of breast cancer add MRI to their routine mammogram screenings. MRIs use magnets to produced detailed images of soft tissue. But they can also produce high rates of false positives. And false positive readings can lead to more biopsies, which can be expensive and cause anxiety among patients. But when the Washington researchers added MRI to routine mammograms for women with breast cancer, they were able to detect twice as many tumors among these women as among women who had no history of the disease. >> We have a group that we're recommending it for. We have now some results showing that it's at least as good in these women with a personal history of breast cancers. We were less likely to biopsy them for things that didn't need to be biopsied. And also, we found [ unk ] breast cancers. >> We spoke with Dr. Maxine Jochelson, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York, about how these findings will change screening practices. >> What this study did is to try to break down the population of patients who has had breast cancer and to start looking at which patients are gonna benefit in-- within that category, and which patients may be fine with just mammography. >> The results suggest that expanding current MRI guidelines to include breast cancer survivors could help to detect and therefore, prevent more cases of breast cancer. But additional studies will have to confirm those findings before these policies will change. 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