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Why don’t all women with extremely dense breasts want MRI screening?

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The author receives grant funding from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, BCRF 2023-015, and the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition.

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    Wendie A. Berg

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WAB discloses consulting with Exai Bio, Inc., and research grant support to her institution from Koios Medical, Inc. She is a voluntary Chief Scientific Advisor to DenseBreast-info.org and a voluntary Associate Editor to the Journal of Breast Imaging.

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Berg, W.A. Why don’t all women with extremely dense breasts want MRI screening?. Eur Radiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-10773-w

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