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Cancer Manag Res. 2018 Dec 06;10:6743-6756. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S167924. eCollection 2018.

Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of metastatic breast cancer.

Cancer management and research

Marcos Vieira Godinho, Flavia Paiva Proença Lobo Lopes, Flavia Martins Costa

Affiliations

  1. Clinic of Imaging Diagnosis (CDPI), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, [email protected].
  2. National Institute of Cancer (INCa), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, [email protected].
  3. Radiology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

PMID: 30584368 PMCID: PMC6289208 DOI: 10.2147/CMAR.S167924

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common type of tumor in women and an important cause of mortality in the female population. The early and precise diagnosis, staging, and treatment of this neoplasia are essential for public health purposes. Technological development, for example, of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging, made possible the adoption of new imaging modalities for a better approach for these patients. This imaging modality is helpful to staging, to therapy response assessment, and to the study of therapeutic changes in bone marrow, because it gives, at the same time, anatomical information using T1- and T2-weighted images, with high spatial resolution and tissue contrast, as well as functional sequences (diffusion-weighted images), which make possible the detection of hypercellular viable tumors.

Keywords: chemotherapy; diffusion; heterogeneity; hypercellularity; necrosis; staging

Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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