Beyond breast cancer: mammographic features and mortality risk in a population of healthy women.

Beyond breast cancer: mammographic features and mortality risk in a population of healthy women.

BACKGROUND:Breast fibroglandular (dense) tissue is a risk factor for breast cancer. Beyond breast cancer, little is known regarding the prognostic significance of mammographic features. METHODS:We evaluated relationships between nondense (fatty) breast area and dense area with all-cause mortality in...

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Main Authors: Rachel A Murphy, Catherine Schairer, Gretchen L Gierach, Celia Byrne, Mark E Sherman, Thomas C Register, Jingzhong Ding, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Tamara B Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3808289?pdf=render

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