Mammographic density, breast cancer risk and risk prediction

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Vachon, Celine M ^a   van Gils, Carla H ^b   Sellers, Thomas A ^c   Ghosh, Karthik ^a   Pruthi, Sandhya ^a   Brandt, Kathleen R ^a   Pankratz, V Shane ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 40349102022     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr1829     Document Type: Review

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