Tumor stiffness measured by shear wave elastography correlates with tumor hypoxia as well as histologic biomarkers in breast cancer.
Joonghyun YooBo-Kyoung SeoEun Kyung ParkMyoungae KwonHoiseon JeongKyu Ran ChoOk Hee WooSung Eun SongJaehyung ChaPublished in: Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society (2020)
Tumor stiffness on SWE is significantly correlated with tumor hypoxia as well as histologic biomarkers. In particular, Eaverage on SWE has independent prognostic significance for tumor hypoxia in the multivariable analysis and can potentially be used as a noninvasive imaging biomarker to predict prognosis and pretreatment risk stratification in breast cancer patients.