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JOHN SHEPHERD
UH
CANCER CENTER RESEARCHER
Population Sciences in the Pacifc Program , Cancer Epidemiology
John Shepherd , PhD , uses innovative technology in an efort to improve the accuracy of cancer screening and body composition measuring .
“ Studies have shown that up to 60 percent of women screened with mammography over 10 years have at least one abnormal result , even though no breast cancer is present ,” said Shepherd .
John
Shepherd
“ We were interested in decreasing the number of false-positive biopsy results and at the same time not missing invasive cancers that should undergo biopsy .”
Shepherd ’ s three compartment breast ( 3CB ) imaging technique has the potential to notably improve breast cancer screening . 3CB imaging can potentially rule out 36 percent of suspicious fndings in standard mammograms without invasive biopsies .
– JOHN SHEPHERD
As an expert consultant for a component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study for 20 years , Shepherd also researches 3D optical and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scanning . More specifically , he looks at how the scans can be used to accurately measure the muscle and fat composition within a person to help identify health risk and nutrition motivation trends .
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