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Examining individual breast tissue for characteristic structural traits may more accurately define a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer. On a recent release of the Journal of Clinical Oncology researchers announced that the more acini is present in a woman’s system – acini are the sacs that produce milk – and the larger her breast lobules are, the larger the chances that she will suffer from breast cancer. Derek Radisky, assistant professor of biochemistry at the Mayo Clinic and co-author of this study, stated that a vast number of women request breast biopsies from anomalous mammograms, numbering up to 1 to 2 million people per year in the US alone. “Of these, about one quarter have positive findings of cancer while the rest could immediately benefit from this kind of assessment” he … Read entire article »