… and using modern mammography, influences the risk of breast cancer at screening, …
mammographic density in the baseline mammogram and the subsequent risk of breast cancer. We …

… the effects of mammographic density on breast cancer risk in the … Studies of mammographic
density have been conducted … mammographic density represents a risk factor for breast …

… Mammographic density refers to the percentage of dense tissue of an entire breast. The …
Mammographic density is shown to be heritable in a couple of studies [14, 37]. In a study …

… with dense tissue in more than 60-75% of the breast … greater risk of breast cancer than
those with no densities. … between density and risk of breast cancer predicts that for every …

… mammogram occupied by radiologically dense tissue (percent mammographic density, or
PMD), reflects variations in breast … and is strongly associated with breast cancer risk [1]. Here, …

… in the genetic, biological and epidemiological basis of mammographic density (MD), and
the search for causative links between MD and breast cancer (BC) risk. This report will critically …

… Mammographic density has been strongly associated with increased risk of breast cancer. …
Initial methods for assessing mammographic density were entirely subjective and qualitative; …

… When we examined mammographic density by decade of age, there was a normal distribution
of breast density, as shown in Figure 1. Using analysis of variance, we found a significant …

… density, ” while fat appears dark. We show evidence that mammographic density is a
strong risk factor for breast cancer, and that risk of breast cancer is four to five times greater in …

… quantitative assessment of mammographic density with use of a … mammographic density is
one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer and is present in a large proportion of breast …