first time in the Kingdom
King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah recorded the first achievement of its kind in the Kingdom, by detecting breast cancer in a woman using magnetic resonance imaging scans instead of surgeries. Where a sample was taken from the breast area by means of an MRI machine for a woman suspected of being "cancerous", and samples were taken surgically in the past period, and it was dispensed with with the development of technology and competencies, so breast samples were taken without surgical intervention and the subsequent anesthesia and hypnosis of the patient in the hospital, and it is performed in Half an hour with local anesthesia by a radiologist, through ultrasound or mammogram guidance (known as stereotaxic), as the first experience was for a Saudi patient who was suffering from a cancerous tumor, and in a suspected cancerous area in the right breast, and it only appeared by magnetic resonance, and the sample was taken under the guidance Magnetic resonance, with the follow-up of the consultant diagnostic radiology and head of the radiology department, Dr. Iman Hashem Baroum, with the medical team, and the patient left her home without pain.
Barum explained that the sample obtained through the magnetic resonance device detects tumors that the ultrasound and mammogram devices cannot detect, especially granules whose size is less than five milligrams. In addition to that this method greatly reduces the psychological effects on the patient, and the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah, Dr. Sami Badawood, expressed his pleasure with this development in the service provided to breast cancer patients in the governorate, pointing out that this is the first case of its kind among the hospitals of the Ministry of Health.
