How can we acheive MRIs as the standard of care for women wi...

How can we acheive MRIs as the standard of care for women with dense, fiborous breast tissue? It seems that it is the standard of care at Monclair Breast Center in NJ. I am sure their are many practices where MRIs are the standard of care for dense, fiborous breast tissue. Please let me know what other practices in the country do MRIs for dense, fiborous breast tissue.

Hello. Are you searching for a care facility in your area, and that is why the question? If so, you need to mention what area you are interested in. There might be another poster who could answer you. I COULD get MRI's in Southern California (where I live), BUT, I have a pacemaker, and so MRI's are out (there can be no metal in the body to have an MRI). But, for a higher standard of screening, I agree with you - MRI's are the best screening so far for dense breasts.

My wife has had 3 breast MRIs since they discovered a 7 cm tumor. The second MRI showed the first chemo did nothing. The 3rd MRI showed that the second chemo drug only partially worked. My question is how can we make MRIs routine for women with dense, fiborous breast tissue so more women do not end up finding a huge tumor. It appears to be routine in some practices like the Monclair Breast Center. If one (I suspect there are many more) practise uses MRIs for dense fibrous breast tissue then why is that not the standard of care everywhere? I know the usual answer is that there are too many false positives. I called Monclair and they do not have a problem with false positives when they read their MRI results. I wanted to know the names of other practices that used MRIs for dense, fiborous breast tissue so the remaining practices could be persuaded to change their standard of care. Wake Radiology, NC has a decade of mammogram results showing no tumor. My wife was never told that tumors may not show up on a mammogram because she has dense, fiborous breast tissue.