Use of mammography with contrast for the diagnosis of breast cancer

Abstract

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, caused by the progressive accumulation of mutations and chromosomal abnormalities. Currently, breast cancer is considered the neoplasm with the highest incidence and mortality in women worldwide, so much so that every year in the world, one million breast cancers are discovered and around 400,000 women die from it. The search for diagnostic techniques that allow the detection of this pathology in an effective way has become essential and that is where mammography emerges, as a screening method, which has been shown to reduce mortality by detecting breast cancer early; however, in very dense breasts detection is difficult, so they have been modified, and thus generating new screening and diagnostic methods such as contrast-enhanced mammography, which is the newest and most promising imaging technique based on neovascularization of breast tumors in a similar way and may even be better than MRI.