Evidence that breast tissue stiffness is associated with risk of breast cancer.

BACKGROUND: Evidence from animal models shows that tissue stiffness increases the invasion and progression of cancers, including mammary cancer. We here use measurements of the volume and the projected area of the compressed breast during mammography to derive estimates of breast tissue stiffness an...

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Main Authors: Norman F Boyd, Qing Li, Olga Melnichouk, Ella Huszti, Lisa J Martin, Anoma Gunasekara, Gord Mawdsley, Martin J Yaffe, Salomon Minkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4091939?pdf=render