Aggressive Breast Cancer Identified Using New MRI Contrast Agent

By now most people know the immense value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for determining an array of diseases or disorders of the body. Yet, for all its power, MRI is only as good as the physician reading the scans, and when used to determine cancer, the physicians are only as good as the chemicals employed to distinguish healthy tissue from cancerous tumors . Now, investigators at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have developed a new MRI contrasting agent that not only pinpoints brea