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Cancer Commentary - Caring About Cancer

January 26th, 2007

Breast Density is A Breast Cancer Risk Factor

As reported by Dr. Norman Boyd and colleagues of the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, breast density itself could be a risk factor for breast cancer.
[The other risk factors include having a close relative with breast cancer, carrying one of the known BRCA breast cancer genes and never having borne a child.]
They found that women […]

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September 20th, 2006

Breast Density, Now an Important Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: New Model Says

According to a new model developed by scientists from Group Health and seven other health care organizations in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC), breast density is almost equally important as a woman’s in determining her risk of developing breast cancer.
The model, based on the largest study of this issue to-date (in terms of population […]

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