Vanessa Kachadurian Biosciencetechnology MRI abnormality 9 times more likely to get Breast Cancer

Healthy women possessing a certain abnormality on MRIs are nine times more likely to get breast cancer, according to research published in Radiology. The abnormality is called background parenchymal enhancement (BPE), a phenomenon in which areas of normal background breast tissue appear white, or enhanced.
The magnitude of the link was so strong, it could lead to improved cancer detection and therapy, if future research concurs.
“The degree of the impact of BPE on risk for developing breast cancer was surprising,” senior author, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Director of Radiology, Constance Lehman, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, told Bioscience Technology. “While we hypothesized BPE would increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, we did not predict over a 9 fold increased risk.”
The impact may go far beyond finding cancer earlier.
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