Anoma Gunasekara

TL;DR: Results show that the population variation in the percentage of dense tissue on mammography at a given age has high heritability, which could be important for understanding the causes of the disease.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used MRI to measure the water content of the breast, which provides a measurement of the fibro-glandular content of breast tissue with similar accuracy to mammography, but without the attendant exposure to radiation.

TL;DR: Responses and nonresponders were significantly different for all functional parameters at the 4-week scan, except for %water, which approached significance, suggesting DOS could be used as an early detector of tumor response.

TL;DR: A novel method of assessing breast tissue that is fully automated, does not require an observer, and measures the volume, rather than the projected area, of the relevant tissues in digitized screen-film mammogram did not improve prediction of breast cancer risk.

TL;DR: Measurements of the volume and the projected area of the compressed breast during mammography are used to derive estimates of breast tissue stiffness and examine the relationship of stiffness to risk of breast cancer.