Using mammographic density to predict breast cancer risk: Dense area or percentage dense area

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Stone, Jennifer ^a   Ding, Jane ^b   Warren, Ruth M L ^c   Duffy, Stephen W ^d   Hopper, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; BODY MASS; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78349298333     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2778     Document Type: Article

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