Siwa Chan1,2,3, Jeon-Hor Chen4,5,6, Shunshan Li7, Rita Chang7, Darh-Cherng Yeh8, Ruey-Feng Chang1, Lee-Ren Yeh9, Jessica Kwong7, Min-Ying Su7. 1. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 2. Department of Medical Imaging, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. 3. Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. 4. Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. jeonhc@uci.edu. 5. Department of Radiology, E-Da Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. jeonhc@uci.edu. 6. John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, University of California Irvine, No. 164, Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-5020, USA. jeonhc@uci.edu. 7. Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. 8. Breast Cancer Center, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. 9. Department of Radiology, E-Da Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To investigate the relationship between mammographic density measured in four quadrants of a breast with the location of the occurred cancer. METHODS: One hundred and ten women diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer that could be determined in one specific breast quadrant were retrospectively studied. Women with previous cancer/breast surgery were excluded. The craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) mammography of the contralateral normal breast were used to separate a breast into 4 quadrants: Upper-Outer (UO), Upper-Inner (UI), Lower-Outer (LO), and Lower-Inner (LI). The breast area (BA), dense area (DA), and percent density (PD) in each quadrant were measured by using the fuzzy-C-means segmentation. The BA, DA, and PD were compared between patients who had cancer occurring in different quadrants. RESULTS: The upper-outer quadrant had the highest BA (37 ± 15 cm2) and DA (7.1 ± 2.9 cm2), with PD = 20.0 ± 5.8%. The order of BA and DA in the 4 separated quadrants were: UO > UI > LO > LI, and almost all pair-wise comparisons showed significant differences. For tumor location, 67 women (60.9%) had tumor in UO, 16 (14.5%) in UI, 7 (6.4%) in LO, and 20 (18.2%) in LI quadrant, respectively. The estimated odds and the 95% confidence limits of tumor development in the UO, UI, LO and LI quadrants were 1.56 (1.06, 2.29), 0.17 (0.10, 0.29), 0.07 (0.03, 0.15), and 0.22 (0.14, 0.36), respectively. In these 4 groups of women, the order of quadrant BA and DA were all the same (UO > UI > LO > LI), and there was no significant difference in BA, DA or PD among them (all p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Breast cancer was most likely to occur in the UO quadrant, which was also the quadrant with highest BA and DA; but for women with tumors in other quadrants, the density in that quadrant was not the highest. Therefore, there was no direct association between quadrant density and tumor occurrence.
BACKGROUND: To investigate the relationship between mammographic density measured in four quadrants of a breast with the location of the occurred cancer. METHODS: One hundred and ten women diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer that could be determined in one specific breast quadrant were retrospectively studied. Women with previous cancer/breast surgery were excluded. The craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) mammography of the contralateral normal breast were used to separate a breast into 4 quadrants: Upper-Outer (UO), Upper-Inner (UI), Lower-Outer (LO), and Lower-Inner (LI). The breast area (BA), dense area (DA), and percent density (PD) in each quadrant were measured by using the fuzzy-C-means segmentation. The BA, DA, and PD were compared between patients who had cancer occurring in different quadrants. RESULTS: The upper-outer quadrant had the highest BA (37 ± 15 cm2) and DA (7.1 ± 2.9 cm2), with PD = 20.0 ± 5.8%. The order of BA and DA in the 4 separated quadrants were: UO > UI > LO > LI, and almost all pair-wise comparisons showed significant differences. For tumor location, 67 women (60.9%) had tumor in UO, 16 (14.5%) in UI, 7 (6.4%) in LO, and 20 (18.2%) in LI quadrant, respectively. The estimated odds and the 95% confidence limits of tumor development in the UO, UI, LO and LI quadrants were 1.56 (1.06, 2.29), 0.17 (0.10, 0.29), 0.07 (0.03, 0.15), and 0.22 (0.14, 0.36), respectively. In these 4 groups of women, the order of quadrant BA and DA were all the same (UO > UI > LO > LI), and there was no significant difference in BA, DA or PD among them (all p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS:Breast cancer was most likely to occur in the UO quadrant, which was also the quadrant with highest BA and DA; but for women with tumors in other quadrants, the density in that quadrant was not the highest. Therefore, there was no direct association between quadrant density and tumor occurrence.
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Breast cancer; Breast quadrant; Dense area; Mammographic density; Percent density; Upper-outer quadrant
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