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Dense breasts — References & further reading

References

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² Stone, J., et al. 2009. Determinants of percentage and area measures of mammographic density. Am. J. Epidemiol., 170 (12), 1571—1578. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19910376 (accessed 02.18.2010).

³ Odefrey, F., et al. 2010.

  Boyd, N., et al. 2007. Mammographic density and the risk and detection of breast cancer. NEJM, 356 (3), 227—236. URL: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/3/227 (accessed 01.19.2007).

  McCormack, V., & dos Santos Silva, I. 2006. Breast density and parenchymal patterns as markers of breast cancer risk: A meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev., 15 (6), 1159—1169. URL: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/15/6/1159.long (accessed 02.22.2010).

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⁴ Boyd, N., et al. 2006. Mammographic density: A hormonally responsive risk factor for breast cancer. J. Br. Menopause Soc., 12 (4), 186—193. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19910376 (accessed 02.18.2010).

⁵ Becker, S., & Kaaks, R. 2009. Exogenous and endogenous hormones, mammographic density and breast cancer risk: Can mammographic density be considered an intermediate marker of risk? Recent Results Cancer Res., 181, 135—157. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19213565 (accessed 02.19.2010).

⁶ Boyd, N., et al. 2006.

⁷ Houssami, N., et al. 2009. Early detection of breast cancer: Overview of the evidence on computer-aided detection in mammography screening. J. Med. Imaging Radiat. Oncol., 53 (2), 171—176. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19527363 (accessed 01.18.2010).

⁸ Sinha, S., & Sinha, U. 2009. Recent advances in breast MRI and MRS. NMR Biomed., 22 (1), 3—16. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18654998 (accessed 02.22.2010).

⁹ Tang, X., & Ding, H. 2005. Asymmetry analysis of breast thermograms with morphological image segmentation. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc., 2, 1680—1683. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17282535 (accessed 10.07.2008).

¹⁰ Pisano, E., et al. 2005. Diagnostic performance of digital versus film mammography for breast-cancer screening. The results of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). NEJM, 353 (17), 1773—1783. URL: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/353/17/1773 (accessed 01.13.2010).

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