ROENTGEN-PATHOLOGIC STUDY OF BREAST CANCER

This paper presents a correlative roentgen- rapathologic study of 90 cases of breast cancer. 67 had roentgenograms of the whole organ and 85 specimen slices (horizontal or vertical to the skin surface) with 62 having both. Of the tumor tissue studied, cancer cells have the highest density, their number and arrangement greatly influence the X-ray mass shadow density and homogeneity. Uneven mass shadow density is an important roentgen sign of malignancy, occurring in 8WO of this series.