Detecting breast cancer early can improve prognosis and reduce deaths.
Dr. Pruthi stresses the importance of understanding your individual risk factors, which can start with a conversation.
“I want people to come back to their primary care doctors and say, ‘Can you tell me what are my risk factors? Can you do a risk assessment and guide me on what is the best approach that’s individualized to my needs based on my risk factors?’ And that may mean screening someone younger with different screening recommendations,” says Dr. Pruthi.
Those different screening recommendations may include MRI in addition to mammography, whole breast ultrasound or molecular breast imaging.
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