"A team at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago noted that newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are at risk of having another hidden tumor in the same or opposite breast. If these additional tumors are detected before surgery to remove the initially diagnosed tumor, then the plans for surgical management of a patient's breast cancer can be changed."

"This study included 155 women who'd been diagnosed with breast cancer by mammogram, ultrasound or needle biopsy. The women were then evaluated by a surgeon who developed a surgical treatment plan. After this consultation, the women had an MRI on both breasts."

"Those MRIs spotted a total of 124 additional aberrant areas in 73 of the women. If a follow-up biopsy showed these areas to be
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