DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2017.v03i01.002

Pages: Page: 5-18

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in Indian women. According to the national cancer registry project report about 52000 females develop breast cancer in India per year. It is reported by ICMR that one in 22 women in India is likely to suffer from breast cancer during her lifetime, while the figure is more in America with one in eight being a victim of this cancer. An early accurate diagnosis of breast cancer has a favorable prognosis than that of late detection. But more than 90% of the diagnosed cases are in the stage II, III and IV. In most of the cases, the suspicious breast lesions turn out to be benign. All the patients in the age group of 35 to 50yrs, who had come to the radiology department for screening mammogram and patients who are having high risk factors for malignancy were taken into the study. A total of fifty patients with probable benign breast lesions on digital mammogram and also having high risk factors for malignancy were further evaluated by MRI. Ultrasonography was done in all patients followed by USG guided FNAC. Aim of this study is to prospectively establish the efficacy of MRI in characterization of probably benign breast lesions in young patients. The Objectives of this study are comparison of Contrast MR Mammography and digital mammography in evaluating probably benign breast lesions (BIRADS III) in women more than 35 years of age and to study the efficacy of Contrast MR Mammography in breast lesions characterization in probably benign lesions with histopathology as gold standard. After the Mammogram was studied, 50 patients with probable benign breast lesions were selected for further evaluation.