The most frequently diagnosed cancer among women worldwide is breast cancer, it is also the leader among deaths caused by cancer in women but the mortality rate of breast cancer has reduced in recent years [1]. This progress may be in part due to advancements in imaging modalities which are used in the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. When breast cancer diagnosis is established, further evaluations are required to understand the extent of the disease and determine treatment path(s). The determination of prognosis is...

The study was designed as a prospective study of invasive ductal breast cancer patients who had been treated at Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital between 2015 and 2016. Ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee. Additional approval was obtained from the hospital board as our institution is considered as a reference hospital for breast cancer. The MRI values and dynamic results of patients who had MR indications and had underwent MR imaging which revealed they had BIRADS-4 or BIRADS-5 lesions were recorded....

We included 81 female patients into our study, mean age was 47.27 ± 12.13. Sixty-three (77.8%) patients had IDC while 9 (11.1%) patients had ILC. When we evaluated tumor grades there were 11 (14.9%) patients with Grade 1, 29 (29.2%) patients with Grade 2 and 34 (%45.9) patients with Grade 3 tumor, while grading for 7 patients were missing. Forty-five (55.6%) patients had DCIS component while 10 (12.3%) had LCIS component. Twenty patients had lymphovascular invasion and 4 (4.9%) patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy. When we...

We aimed to identify any relationship between dynamic MRI findings (with a focus on washout type curve) and factors that affect prognosis in invasive ductal breast cancers. Currently; tumor size and type, histological grade, lymph node status, lymphovascular invasion (LVI), steroid receptor (estrogen and progesterone) and human epidermal growth factor receptor expressions, and proliferation markers such as Ki-67 are accepted as important prognosis determining/effecting factors. Contrast-enhanced dynamic MRI is currently an important imaging tool in the evaluation of invasive breast cancer. The imaging findings can...

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