Understanding Breast Density and Breast Cancer Risk

Breast Cancer: Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Management

ABSTRACT           Breast cancer remains the most common cancer of women and one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of major advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, the incidence of breast cancer remains high and the treatment of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. This review presents an over...

Breast Implants and Breast Cancer

Mammographic breast density, endocrine therapies, and breast cancer risk

MBD and breast cancer risk Elevated MBD is considered one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer regardless of whether it is assessed as a categorical or quantitative measure.6 Women in the highest categories of breast density have a 4to 6-fold increased breast cancer risk compared with women in the lowest categories. MBD has been shown to be a stronger risk factor for breast cancer th...

Life course breast cancer risk factors and adult breast density

Objective: To determine whether risk factors in childhood and early adulthood affect later mammographic breast density. Methods: Subjects were 628 women who attended a medical examination at the University of Glasgow Student Health Service (1948–1968), responded to a questionnaire (2001) and had a screening mammogram in Scotland (1989–2002). Mammograms (median age of 59 years) were classified u...

Is high breast density a risk factor for breast cancer ?

High breast density (HBD) tends to be seen as a significant and independent risk factor for breast cancer. This article describes a methodological and quantitative study of the variables selected by the large DMIST study, i.e., age, hormonal status and breast density, in correlation with cancer occurrence frequency. The statistical analysis of cancer rates in every patient subgroup of a study i...