Letter: Bromocriptine and breast cancer.

Periodontal Disease and Breast Cancer-Letter.

The recent article by Freudenheim and colleagues found a significant correlation between periodontal disease and invasive breast cancer (1). However, their discussion of potential mechanisms overlooked possibly the most important one: low vitamin D status. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration is strongly linked to breast cancer incidence in case– control studies but not prospective o...

Breast Implants and Breast Cancer

Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality--letter.

I read with great interest your article on racial disparities in breast cancer detection, treatment, and outcomes (1). My comments below are aimed at specifically addressing the disparities in the utilization of adjuvant treatment. The simulation model applied in this study claims to predict the differential impact of adjuvant treatment on breast cancer mortality. But the increase in mortality ...

Breast Cancer and Screening

سرطان پستان یکی از شایع ترین بیماریهای بدخیم و اولین علت مرگ و میر زنان بوده و تقریبا یک سوم تمام سرطانهای زنان را تشکیل می دهد.

Oophorectomy and breast cancer in BRCA mutation carriers--letter.

The article by Kotsopoulos and colleagues (1) shows that oophorectomy significantly decreased the incidence of breast cancer in carriers of deleterious BRCA mutations, with OR, 0.52 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.40–0.66]. This is an important result. The authors, however, wrongly interpreted their results writing that "women who underwent surgical menopause had a 48% decrease in the risk of ...