Sentences with word «microcalcifications»

A cluster of microcalcifications: women with high risk for breast cancer versus other women.

Early tests showed the compound worked to highlight microcalcifications of hydroxyapetite in mice.

Potential future options include solutions that would mimic either benign cysts or tiny bits of calcium called microcalcifications, which can signal cancer.

And the animal studies reported today show that subcutaneous injections of PAM800 easily allowed them to highlight microcalcifications in the animals.

One of the papers I referenced above found that uncarboxylated MGP (MGP without the addition of carbon dioxide) sticks to arterial plaque, and that as the plaque increases in severity, it contains more microcalcifications and more uncarboxylated MGP (2):

They are not as good, however, as mammograms at identifying microcalcifications — tiny calcium deposits that can indicate cancer when clustered together.

These deposits, called microcalcifications, are common to both benign and malignant tumors.

Up to half of early breast cancers contain little clusters of microcalcifications, tiny deposits of calcium that on a mammogram look like a constellation of faint stars.

Microcalcifications are tiny calcium deposits in breast tissue that occur more frequently in women who have breastfed, particularly for extended periods.

«The one area that mammograms do pick up is microcalcifications,» notes Dr. Audeh, «and there are some women whose abnormalities are [only] picked up that way.»