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Risk Models for Breast Cancer and Their Validation.
(2020-03-03)
Strategies to prevent cancer and diagnose it early when it is most treatable are needed to reduce the public health burden from rising disease incidence. Risk assessment is playing an increasingly important role in targeting ...
External validation of a mammographic texture marker for breast cancer risk in a case-control study.
(SPIE, 2020-02-12)
Purpose: The pattern of dense tissue on a mammogram appears to provide additional information than overall density for risk assessment, but there has been little consistency in measures of texture identified. The purpose ...
Mammographic density, endocrine therapy and breast cancer risk: a prognostic and predictive biomarker review
(Wiley, 2021-10-26)
Background
Endocrine therapy is effective at preventing or treating breast cancer. Some forms of endocrine therapy have been shown to reduce mammographic density. Reduced mammographic density for women receiving endocrine ...
Young adulthood body mass index, adult weight gain and breast cancer risk: the PROCAS Study (United Kingdom)
(2020-03-23)
© 2020, The Author(s). Background: We tested the hypothesis that body mass index (BMI) aged 20 years modifies the association of adult weight gain and breast cancer risk. Methods: We recruited women (aged 47–73 years) into ...