Jenny Hild Aase Husby

Jenny took her medical degree at the University of Bergen in 2003 and began her specialization in radiology in 2005. At Haukeland University Hospital she worked with medical images — first at the Department of Radiology and, from 2010 to 2012, at the Centre for Nuclear Medicine and PET. From 2013 to 2015 she was a research fellow funded by Helse Vest and affiliated with the University of Bergen.

Jenny's research concerns how MRI and PET/CT can provide more reliable knowledge about endometrial cancer before treatment begins. Medical images can reveal, among other things, the size of the tumour, how deeply it grows, the blood flow and how actively the tissue takes up sugar. The goal is to better distinguish low-risk from high-risk disease, so that treatment can be tailored to the individual patient.

In 2016 she defended the thesis «Functional imaging to promote individualized and targeted therapy in endometrial cancer». The work was tied to the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Section for Radiology and the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers at the University of Bergen. The trial lecture posed the question: «Can PET/MRI contribute to the assessment of gynaecological cancer?»

PubMed lists ten scientific papers with Jenny as author or co-author from 2011 to 2022. The works range from quality assurance through double reading of radiological examinations to studies of MRI, diffusion, blood flow, biological markers and PET/CT in endometrial cancer. Several of the studies examine how the images can predict deep growth, risk of spread, recurrence or low-risk disease before surgery.