Microcalcification, the name of the game - Minute deposits of calcium in breast tissue act as a marker for breast cancer. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has now been used to show how deposits in benign conditions can be distinguished from those present in the early stages of the disease.
Microcalcification in breast tissue can be a sign of malignancy, but more often than not they are simply a residue of a benign condition. Now, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University have turned to diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to help them develop a clinical approach that might help doctors distinguish between cancerous and noncancerous incidence of such deposits.
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