Diagnosing the Obese

More than two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Mary Lou Graf received troubling news following a mammogram and, later, an ultrasound. Doctors suspected a recurrence of cancer, but tests were inconclusive. They ordered an MRI.

More and more, breast MRI is becoming a diagnostic tool for physicians and also as an adjunct to mammography. While mammography remains the gold standard, there are certain tumors and diseases that can't be seen with mammography, but can be seen with MRI.

The problem: Mary Lou, like a growing number of Americans, is too large for most MRI machines. So, she traveled to Southwest Diagnostic Imaging Center in Dallas to take advantage of an MRI that combines a large bore, or opening, that's a full 70 centimeters wide with high field imaging.

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