Breast Cancer
- About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
- In 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 57,650 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
- About 2,140 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in men in 2011. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000.
Ultrasound-guided optical coherence tomography (OCT) appears to be an effective means for differentiating early-stage breast cancers from benign lesions, and, as such, it has the potential to reduce the number of breast biopsies women undergo for suspicious lesions.
Laser implications:
Insight’s fast measurement speed reduces movement blurring and supports high-definition 3D imaging. Long coherence length allows more flexibility in imager distance. The clean optical signal provides more detail, higher contrast and less feature blur.
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