Assessment of breast cancer risk based on mammary gland volume measured with CT

Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-64

  Kuchiki, Megumi ^a   Hosoya, Takaaki ^a   Fukao, Akira ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer risk; Breast cancer risk factor; Mammary gland volume; Mammographic density

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMARY GLAND VOLUME; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649360655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BCBCR.S5248     Document Type: Article

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