Breast cancer patients are concerned about the cancer spreading to other parts of the body. One of the first places that breast cancer spreads is to the nearby lymph nodes. Right now, the only way to determine whether or not cancer has spread to the lymph nodes is to perform invasive surgery. Researchers are trying to come up with non-invasive procedures, and MRI has great potential.
Picture of new lymph node coil developed at the Magnetic Resonance Science Center at UCSF.
Using a new contrast agent to look at lymph nodes in breast and lung cancer patients at Johns Hopkins: http://www.mri.jhu.edu/~dbluemke/Lung_cancer.html
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