Background
breast cancer
INVASIVE BREAST CANCER, BREAST CANCER, DISEASE, BREAST CANCER, LYMPH NODE METASTASIS
Accurate assessment of the local extent of breast cancer is essential to plan treatment. While knowing the size of the index malignant lesion preoperatively may help the surgeon to obtain clear pathological margins, and reduce rates of re-excision [Breast cancer patients with multifocal or multicentric disease have higher risk of lymph node metastasis and poorer prognosis [MRI has long been considered the most sensitive approach for determining breast cancer extent [The aim of this paper is to compare the ability of CEM and MRI to detect additional malignant lesions not evident on routine clinical examination and conventional breast imaging in women with invasive breast cancer.