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Breast Cancer Screening
Predictive ability of mammmographic density may vary in different ethnic groups
December 8th, 2005
The predictive ability of mammmographic density may vary in different ethnic groups. "In a nested case-control study (2001-2004)," scientists from the United States "investigated the association between mammographic density and breast cancer risk among women of Caucasian, Japanese, and Native Hawaiian ancestry in the Hawaii component of the Multiethnic Cohort Study." G. Maskarinec and colleagues "retrieved several prediagnostic mammograms for breast cancer cases and for controls frequency-matched to cases by age and ethnicity." "A reader who was blinded to case status and year of mammogram performed computer-assisted density assessment," the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-08)
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