Radiology and Diagnostic services for El Paso include MRI, CT Scan, Ultrasounds, Digital Mammography, Digital X-Rays, Dexa Bone Density Scans, Breast MRis, Breast Biopsies, Womens Health, Agressive Diabetes Care, Early Cancer Detection and more provided by Diagnostic Outpatient Imaging.

HIGH RISK WOMEN -BREAST CANCER

Women at high risk for Breast Cancer include:

Women who have very dense breasts.
Women who have breast implants.
Women who have a personal history of breast cancer or who have 1st degree relatives with breast cancer.
Women who have had radiation therapy to the chest between ages 10 and 30 for lymphoma or leukemia.
Women who have BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic defects or 1st degree relatives with those defects .
Women with a new diagnosis of breast cancer in one breast to determine if there is cancer in the other breast.
Women who have cancer in an axillary lymph gland with out obvious primary.

The new recommendation comes with a warning: Not all doctors' offices have the proper MRI equipment. Women should not get MRI screening at a practice that does not also offer MRI-guided biopsies, the ACS warns.