Mammographic texture features associated with contralateral breast cancer in the WECARE Study

Gordon P Watt¹, Julia A Knight^{2

3}, Christine Lin⁴, Charles F Lynch⁵, Kathleen E Malone⁶, Esther M John^{7

8}, Leslie Bernstein⁹, Jennifer D Brooks³, Anne S Reiner¹⁰, Xiaolin Liang¹⁰, Meghan Woods¹⁰, Tuong L Nguyen¹¹, John L Hopper¹¹, Malcolm C Pike¹⁰, Jonine L Bernstein¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. wattg@mskcc.org.
² Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁶ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹ Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
¹¹ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.

PMID: 34845211
PMCID: PMC8630158
DOI: 10.1038/s41523-021-00354-1

Mammographic texture features associated with contralateral breast cancer in the WECARE Study

Gordon P Watt et al. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 29;7(1):146.

doi: 10.1038/s41523-021-00354-1.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. wattg@mskcc.org.
² Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁶ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹ Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
¹¹ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.

PMID: 34845211
PMCID: PMC8630158
DOI: 10.1038/s41523-021-00354-1

Abstract

To evaluate whether mammographic texture features were associated with second primary contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, we created a "texture risk score" using pre-treatment mammograms in a case-control study of 212 women with CBC and 223 controls with unilateral breast cancer. The texture risk score was associated with CBC (odds per adjusted standard deviation = 1.25, 95% CI 1.01-1.56) after adjustment for mammographic percent density and confounders. These results support the potential of texture features for CBC risk assessment of breast cancer survivors.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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**Fig. 1. Distribution of texture risk score for unilateral breast cancer (UBC) controls and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) cases in the WECARE Study.**
WECARE Women’s Environment, Cancer, and Radiation Epidemiology Study, CBC contralateral breast cancer, UBC unilateral breast cancer.

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