Breast Cancer

National Institutes of Health green lights additional research into new breast imaging system

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 4th, 2002

Cancer in premenopausal women tends to be more difficult to spot because their breast tissue is denser, often fooling traditional mammography into a false-negative reading. Ironically, the cancers also tend to be more virulent and grow faster.

A Clemson University physicist is working on a laser-imaging system enabling more accurate views of breast tissue. Given the go-ahead from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clemson physicist Huabei Jiang will lead the 5-year $1.38 million NIH research project. Laurie Fajardo, a radiologist with Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and Leonard Schutz, an oncologist with Horizon Cancer Center in Spartanburg, will assist in...

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