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Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer after having MRIs have a lot of questions.  Among them might be, "Is there any more cancer the MRI isn't showing?"  That's where BSGI comes in. 

It stands for Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging.  It's a new procedure, and it found additional cancer in nearly 11 percent of the women in a recent study. 

These were women who were recently diagnosed with breast cancer using MRI. 

Nathalie Johnson led the research.  She's a surgical oncologist in Portland, and she tells us how BSGI works.

Online:

The American Journal of Sugery: Clinical utility of breast-specific gamma imaging for evaluating disease extent in the newly diagnosed breast cancer patient