Breast density and risk of breast cancer: New clothes for the emperor

Breast Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-352

  Brenner, R James ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; DENSITY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; XEROMAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855983661     PISSN: 1043321X     EISSN: 18781918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breastdis.2011.10.053     Document Type: Article

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