Breast Density and Parenchymal Patterns as Markers of Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-analysis
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Summary
This review explains some of the heterogeneity in associations of breast density with breast cancer risk and shows that, in well-conducted studies, this is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2006-06-01
- Cited by
- 2,083
- References
- 78
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1995388182
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28712019
Keywords
Breast cancer, Medicine, Relative risk, Confidence interval, Meta-analysis
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- Progestin may modify the effect of low-dose hormone therapy on mammographic breast density
- The effect of transdermal testosterone on mammographic density in postmenopausal women not receiving systemic estrogen therapy.
- Effective radiation attenuation calibration for breast density: compression thickness influences and correction
- Using mammographic density to predict breast cancer risk: dense area or percentage dense area
- Mammographic breast density and subsequent risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women according to tumor characteristics.
- Mammographic density and urbanization: a population-based screening study
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- Mammographic density and risk of breast cancer by tumor characteristics: a case-control study
- Breast cancer risk factors and mammographic density among high-risk women in urban China
- Modeling Prolactin Actions in Breast Cancer in vivo: Insights from the NRL-PRL Mouse
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