Breast MRI for High-risk Screening

 Introduction.- Thirty years of contrast enhanced breast MRI.- The mantra about low specificity breast MRI.- BRCA and other genes conferring hereditary breast cancer predisposition.- Screening mammography: One size fits all?.- MRI protocols for breast cancer screening.- Contrast materials for screening MRI and concerns about tissue deposition.- Applying MRI BI-RADS in a high-risk population.- CAD systems for breast MRI screening.- Phenotype presentation and radiogenomics of breast cancer with special focus on high-risk women.- The body of primary evidence about MRI for high risk screening: retrospective and prospective studies.- High-risk screening: MRI alone?.- Secondary evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses.- Radioprotection issues for women with hereditary predisposition for breast cancer.- Impact of MRI screening on high-risk patient outcome.- The special case of previous chest radiation therapy.- IT infrastructure for data managing in multicenter high-risk screening.- Guidelines and recommendations all over the world: agreements and differences.- Medical options: Pharmacopreventio- Surgical options: Prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy.- Psychosocial aspects of high-risk of breast cancer.- Calculating, using and improving individual breast cancer risk estimates.- MRI for screening women with a personal history of breast cancer.- Screening MRI for the intermediate risk: an open issue.- Looking at the future: Personalized breast cancer screening.- Acknowledgments.                                                                                                               

Francesco Sardanelli graduated in Medicine with honors at the University of Genoa in 1982 and post-graduated in Radiodiagnostics with honors at the same University in 1986. He served as a staff radiologist at the San Martino Hospital, Genoa (1987-1999) and as adjunct professor at the University of Genoa (1993-2000). Since 2001, he is director of the department of radiology at the Research Hospital Policlinico San Donato, Milan. Adjunct professor at the University of Milan (2002-2006), he was later appointed as associate professor (2006) and full professor (2015) of radiology. From 2008 to 2010 he was director of the post-graduate school in Nuclear Medicine and since 2015 is Director of the post-graduate school in Radiodiagnostics at the University of Milan. He has been consultant for the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, for the national radiological coordination of multicenter studies on breast MRI screening of high-risk women (1998-2009), member of the Research Committee of the European Society of Radiology (2006-2010; 2012-2015), president of the European Society of Breast Imaging (2012-2015) and president of the Italian College of Breast Radiologists by the Italian Society of Medical Radiology (2014-2015). Since 2009, he is Director of the European Network for Assessment of Imaging in Medicine in the context of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research. In 2010 he was co-founder of Breast Centres Certification. Since 2015, he is vice president of the Quality Assurance Scheme Development Group of the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer. He was or currently is member of the Editorial Board for several medical journals, including the American Journal of Roentgenology, European Radiology, The Breast, and La Radiologia Medica; since 2017, he is Editor-in-Chief of European Radiology Experimental. He is an honorary member of the British Society of Breast Radiology and of the Iranian Society of Radiology. He has published 7 books, 46