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Dense breast stromal tissue shows greatly increased concentration of breast epithelium but no increase in its proliferative activity

INTRODUCTION: Increased mammographic density is a strong risk factor for breast cancer. The reasons for this are not clear; two obvious possibilities are increased epithelial cell proliferation in mammographically dense areas and increased breast epithelium in women with mammographically dense breas...

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Autores principales: Hawes, Debra, Downey, Susan, Pearce, Celeste Leigh, Bartow, Sue, Wan, Peggy, Pike, Malcolm C, Wu, Anna H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16646977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr1408