At your annual mammogram visit done at select Diagnostic Imaging Centers locations, you will be asked to spit in a test tube. The DNA in your saliva will then be used for genetic testing. When testing identifies high-risk patients, including those with BRCA gene variants, additional breast MRI screening may be recommended.
This added screening increases the cancer detection rate by three times in high-risk woman.5 Detecting cancer is the first step to an earlier diagnosis. Cancer that is diagnosed earlier also requires less invasive surgery and treatment for improved outcomes.
5 Survival Outcomes of Screening with Breast MRI in Women at Elevated Risk of Breast Cancer, https://academic.oup.com/jbi/article/2/1/29/5706020