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Kinkel K. The never-ending success story of BI-RADS. Diagn Interv Imaging. 2017 Mar;98(3):177-178. doi: 10.1016/j.diii.2017.02.003. PubMed PMID: 28262125. Any physician who wants to become familiar with the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data system (BI-RADS) will discover more than 1600 papers on Pub Med. What makes another paper about BI-RADS interesting? Hasn’t everything already been written about the subject? The paper published in this issue of Diagnostic & Interventional Imaging by Spak et al. summarizes the most recent changes in the fifth and latest edition of the BI-RADS. It represents a quick help in daily practice to keep the radiologist updated on the appropriate use of words and what to include in a clearly written breast imaging report.The effort to adapt a common language took also place among different breast imaging modalities. Spak et al. mention that the latest BI-RADS edition includes an extended description of lesion localization in the mammography section to make comparison with the MRI localization easier [1]. This edition also took great care to simplify mass description across different imaging modalities and avoid confusion as the language had been simplified and made more consistent between mammography, ultrasound and MRI. The purpose was to reduce differences in wording similar messages among imaging modalities. This can potentially help the radiologist in comparing imaging modalities to discriminate benign from malignant lesions or to correlate findings from one imaging modality to another. The Table 1 in Spak et al. paper is an ideal tool in any breast imaging reading room as it gives a quick overview of major changes between the 4th and the 5th edition.