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Breast Cancer
Research from H. Li and colleagues has provided new data on breast cancer
July 10th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Digital Imaging, "The purpose of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of power law spectral analysis on mammographic parenchymal patterns in breast cancer risk assessment. Mammograms from 172 subjects (30 women with the BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutation and 142 low-risk women) were retrospectively collected and digitized." "Because age is a very important risk factor, 60 low-risk women were randomly selected from the 142 low-risk subjects and were age matched to the 30 gene mutation carriers. Regions of interest were manually selected from the central breast region behind the nipple of these digitized...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-10)
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