Secular stability and reliability of measurements of the percentage of dense tissue on mammograms

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 266-274

  Benichou, Jacques ^a   Byrne, Celia ^b   Capece, Laura A ^c   Carroll, Leslie E ^c   Hurt Mullen, Kathy ^d   Pee, David Y ^c   Salane, Martine ^e   Schairer, Catherine ^f   Gail, Mitchell H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^d WESTAT   (United States)

^e MSW Consulting   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessing mammographic density; Breast cancer risk factor; Breast cancer risk projection; Measurement error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043073125     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-090X(03)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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