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‹ Wed · 14 Oct 2026
Early cancer detection or prevention

Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening with Contrast-enhanced Mammography or Abbreviated MRI for Extremely Dense Breasts: The DENSE-2 Trial.

Contrast-enhanced mammography and abbreviated MRI help find more breast cancers in women with extremely dense breast tissue.

This randomized controlled trial examined Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening with Contrast-enhanced Mammography or Abbreviated MRI for Extremely Dense Breasts: The DENSE-2 Trial. The abstract reports that See also the editorial by Bahl in this issue.

What the study was

Study design
Randomized controlled trial
Population
Human participants
Category
Early Detection
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Radiology

Why it surfaced

Randomized controlled trial; directly matches Early cancer detection. Conservative abstract-level score 9/10.

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