Objective:To evaluate the differential diagnosis of 3.0T dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging(DCE-MRI) combined with diffusion weighted imaging(DWI) in the characterization of breast lesion. Methods:A total of 73 patients with breast diseases(37 benign lesions and 42 malignant lesions) were retrospectively analyzed. All lesions were examined with 3.0T DCE-MRI and DWI(b=0.800 s/mm2) before the histopathological demonstration. The lesion morphology,edge enhancement and curve pattern were analyzed using integral method and statistical method. The Fisher score,sensitivity,specificity,accuracy,positive likelihood ra-tio,and negative likelihood ratio of DWI and combined method in the diagnosis of breast lesions were compared. Results:The average apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC) of benign and malignant lesions were(1.49±0.34)×10-3 mm2/s and(1.01±0.29)×10-3 mm2/s.The threshold of ADC between benign and malignant lesions was 1.15×10-3 mm2/s by receiver operating characteristic curve. The sen-sitivity,specificity,accuracy and positive likelihood ratio,negative likelihood ratio of ADC were 83.3%,83.8%,83.5%,0.199,5.142.The sensitivity,specificity,accuracy and positive likelihood ratio,negative likelihood ratio of DCE-MRI were 97.6%,78.4%,88.6%,0.031,4.519. The sensitivity,specificity,accuracy,positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of DCE-MRI combined with DWI were92.9%,91.9%,92.4%,0.077,11.469. Conclusion:DCE-MRI combined with DWI is of high diagnostic value as it has higher scores in sensitivity,specificity,accuracy,positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio in the diagnosis of breast diseases.