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Greatly increased occurrence of breast cancers in areas of mammographically dense tissue

INTRODUCTION: Mammographic density is a strong, independent risk factor for breast cancer. A critical unanswered question is whether cancers tend to arise in mammographically dense tissue (i.e. are densities directly related to risk or are they simply a marker of risk). This question cannot be addre...

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Autores principales: Ursin, Giske, Hovanessian-Larsen, Linda, Parisky, Yuri R, Pike, Malcolm C, Wu, Anna H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16168104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr1260