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Hopeful · 02-03-2011, 09:24 AM

Just to clarify, my surgeon is not advocating replacing mammograms with MRI's, but rather adding MRI's to mammograms. The reason being, MRI's do not show calcifications, which are often one of the telltale signs of bc, and mammograms do.

Hopeful

02-03-2011, 09:24 AM	#7
Hopeful Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,380	Re: ammunition vs "but breast mris may have too many false positives" Just to clarify, my surgeon is not advocating replacing mammograms with MRI's, but rather adding MRI's to mammograms. The reason being, MRI's do not show calcifications, which are often one of the telltale signs of bc, and mammograms do. Hopeful