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Abstract
Background: Breast cancer is the most common female neoplasm (31% of tumors in females), and the second-leading cause of death among women. Breast lesions were first classified as malignant or benign categories.
Aim of the Work: To study the value of DWI and ADC in detection and characterization of breast cancer as well as its role in monitoring and predicting treatment response.
Methodology: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, with a life-time risk of 12% (one in eight) for average-risk women, and is the second most common cause of death from cancer in women. The majority of cases are curable, and much of that curability depends on early detection.
Conclusion The technique can be applied widely for tumor detection and tumor characterization and for the monitoring of response to treatment. In addition, DWI appears to have the ability to predict treatment response to chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The chemotherapy causes cell lysis that leads to increase in the extracellular water and so increase in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC).