Breast Cancer

New breast cancer study findings recently were published by V.Q. Mai and co-researchers

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 19th, 2010

"Elevated bone mineral density (BMD) may be associated with the development of breast cancer and atypia. We investigated the prevalence of breast cancer and atypia in patients with elevated BMD from our outpatient endocrine clinic at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland," researchers in the United States report.

"We retrospectively examined our database for all bone density scans performed on our Discovery QDR (Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass) dual-energy x-ray absortiometry from July 2003 to September 2006 with ail elevated z score >= +2.5 at the total spine, femoral neck or one-third distal forearm. Our dual-energy x-ray absortiometry is operated and...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-01-19)

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