| Abstract: |
Abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a novel emerging tool for breast cancer screening. This chapter explores the commonly used abbreviated breast MRI protocols, its differences with conventional currently more widely used diagnostic breast MRI, its advantages over the current screening tools, the desired target screening population, its limitations and disadvantages, and its future directions. Abbreviated breast MRI is a potential game changer for the future of breast cancer screening, with comparable test performances as the standard conventional diagnostic MRI with high sensitivity for breast cancer detection; however, it is not without challenges (such as cost, gadolinium contrast injection, and accessibility). Its differences with the conventional diagnostic MRI, such as decreased scanning and radiologist interpretation time, make it much more attractive as a screening tool for a larger patient population. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
