Montclair Breast Center Receives the First GE 1.5 T Dedicated Breast MRI in New Jersey

Montclair, NJ (December 2004) Montclair Breast Center, today, announced the arrival of the GE 1.5T dedicated breast Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI). The MRI adds to Montclair Breast Center’s continued dedication to revolutionizing breast care and treatment. The GE 1.5T is the world’s gold standard of MRI units and is a far more sophisticated and advanced piece of equipment than currently available anywhere in New Jersey. This dedicated breast MRI, in addition to the existing advanced equipment and sophisticated technologies like digital mammography and breast ultrasound, allows the nationally recognized team of dedicated breast imagers and breast surgeons to provide the best breast care available. Montclair Breast Center is a premier, multidisciplinary breast center, specializing in a personalized approach to early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Montclair Breast Center is a virtual breast hospital where patients can receive immediate test results and timely treatment.

"Having the only GE 1.5Tdedicated breast MRI fulfills our goal to provide our patients with the most up-to-date technology available," said Nancy Elliott, founder and director. "Breast MRI is the greatest advance in early detection since mammography and will further our goal of increasing breast cancer cure rates for our patients. We are proud to offer our patients any option needed for breast care under our roof."

MRI of the breast has been evolving over the past decade and is now emerging as an important clinical tool that will revolutionize the way breast cancer is diagnosed, staged and treated. The highly sensitive imaging modality detects malignancy within the breast and unlike mammography, uses no radiation.

An important advantage of breast MRI is that it excels in detecting small breast cancers in women with dense breasts, augmented breasts and breasts that have undergone breast conservation with radiation therapy. Mammography can fail to detect up to 40% of breast cancers in women with dense mammographic patterns. For these women, MRI can make all the difference.

Currently, Montclair Breast Center detects 92% of newly diagnosed regular patients with breast cancer at stage zero or stage one. Detection at these early stages greatly increases a woman’s chance of surviving breast cancer. Now, with fully dedicated breast MRI, even more women at Montclair Breast Center will have the advantage of early detection.