Digital mammographic density and breast cancer risk: A case-control study of six alternative density assessment methods

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Eng, Amanda ^a,b   Gallant, Zoe ^a   Shepherd, John ^c   McCormack, Valerie ^d   Li, Jingmei ^e   Dowsett, Mitch ^f   Vinnicombe, Sarah ^g,h   Allen, Steve ⁱ   dos Santos Silva, Isabel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^h East London Breast Screening Service CELBSS   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY; ABNORMALITIES; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MAMMARY GLAND; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84907951787     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-014-0439-1     Document Type: Article

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