While the majority of U.S. women have relatively easy geographic access to most breast imaging services, travel times for breast MRI are notably longer.

The rise in women getting double mastectomies after a breast cancer diagnosis could be linked to anxiety and breast MRI, as reported by NPR on May 21.

Comprehensive audits of breast MRI exams should include separate performance benchmarks for screening and diagnostic breast MRI exams, according to a study published online April 29 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

False-positive mammograms are associated with increased short-term anxiety and an increased patient intention to undergo further breast cancer screening, according to a study published online April 21 by JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Mammography screening programs should be eradicated, all forms of mammography should be evaluated and clear, balanced information about the benefits and harms of screening should be disseminated to women, according to two members of the Swiss Medical Board in an editorial published by the New England Journal of Medicine on April 16. 

Those advocating against the routine use of preoperative breast MRI—an issue that has been in debate for years—received some more support in the literature this week, as a meta-analysis found no evidence that preoperative MRI for staging the cancerous breast reduces local or distant recurrence.

A mismatch in breast-detector sizes causes significantly greater radiation dose for patients with large breasts imaged in a small detector, according to a study published in the January 2014 issue of Academic Radiology. 

The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) guidelines for tracking outcomes and measuring quality indicators need to be strengthened for better assessment of quality of care, according to a study published online Nov. 21 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.