Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
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Carrie Hruska
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Department: Na
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Imaging Acquisition, Inc.
Other : Total intellectual property royalties, through Mayo Clinic
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Background parenchymal uptake (BPU) on molecular breast imaging as a novel breast cancer risk factor
Of women in the U.S. who are eligible for screening mammography, 43% or 27.5 million are estimated to have mammographically dense breasts - a factor strongly associated with increased breast cancer risk. Yet, mammographic density has limited discriminatory accuracy to be useful for risk assessment. We propose that assessment of the functional behavior of dense tissue, as imaged by a molecular breast imaging (MBI) exam, can identify the subset of women with dense breasts who are at the greatest risk of developing breast cancer, and therefore are most likely to benefit from increased surveillance or preventive risk-reduction options.
Filed on September 30, 2015.
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