title: Imaging breast cancer.
abstract: Imaging has a significant role in diagnosing, treating, and monitoring breast cancer. Advances in this field are having a great impact in the clinical management of this disease. Breast cancer has now become an "outpatient cancer". This article describes the role and advances of imaging in breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Breast Imaging Section H-118, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. bartell@mskcc.org
authors.forename: Lia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bartella
authors.forename: Clare S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: D David
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Dershaw
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liberman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013997:Time Factors; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary