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What is the role of MRI in breast cancer screening?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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The goal of adjuvant chemotherapy is:
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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MRI can detect small carcinomas in dense breast tissue that is otherwise difficult to detect using a mammogram. In addition, an MRI can detect increase blood flow to the breast that is associated with the presence of a breast tumor. Given these advantages offered by an MRI, some clinicians use it as a supplementary screening procedure particularly for those with a strong genetic predisposition for breast cancer and who have BRCA1 and BRCA2.

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to destroy any small, undetected sources of metastatic tumor that may have been missed by previous surgical or radiation treatment.



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