Evidence That Breast Tissue Stiffness Is Associated with Risk of Breast Cancer

BACKGROUND: Evidence from animal models shows that tissue stiffness increases the invasion and progression of cancers, including mammary cancer. We here use measurements of the volume and the projected area of the compressed breast during mammography to derive estimates of breast tissue stiffness an...

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Autores principales: Boyd, Norman F., Li, Qing, Melnichouk, Olga, Huszti, Ella, Martin, Lisa J., Gunasekara, Anoma, Mawdsley, Gord, Yaffe, Martin J., Minkin, Salomon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25010427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100937

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25010427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100937

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