Findings from College of Medicine broaden understanding of breast cancer

Data detailed in 'A multi-center prospective cohort study of benign breast disease and risk of subsequent breast cancer' have been presented. "We used a nested case-control design within a large, multi-center cohort of women who underwent a biopsy for benign breast disease (BBD) to assess the association of broad histologic groupings and specific histologic entities with risk of breast cancer. Cases were all women who had a biopsy for BBD and who subsequently developed breast cancer; controls were individually matched to cases and were women with a biopsy for BBD who did not develop breast cancer in the same follow-up interval as that for the cases," researchers in the United States...

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