Central Baptist Hospital was the first hospital in the area to offer breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and is the first and only breast center currently performing MRI guided breast biopsies. An emerging technology for breast imaging, breast MRI is one of the most sensitive in the detection of breast malignancies.

Although not a substitute for mammography, breast MRI can provide additional information in certain cases. Breast MRI can be used for staging breast cancer, in surgical and treatment planning, and evaluating the success of cancer therapy. It is also used in evaluating patients with a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, high familial risk patients, palpable abnormalities without a mammogram or ultrasound finding, nipple discharge, and if mammographic/ultrasonographic findings are nonspecific.

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