Breast Cancer Research, a BioMed Central journal, has published the first articles in a new series
onMammographic
Density, the latest of the journal’s regularreview
series.

This series is edited by Dr
Norman F Boyd from theUniversity
Health Networkin Canada. The review fromVachon et al.
summarises the relationship of density to risk and its potential use in risk
prediction, and the review fromMartin and Boyd
describes a hypothesis using epidemiological data to explain the increased
breast cancer risk associated with extensive density.

Review

Mammographic
density. Potential mechanisms of breast cancer risk associated with
mammographic density: hypotheses based on epidemiological evidence
丽莎·J·马丁,诺曼·F
Boyd
Breast
Cancer Research
2008,10:201 (9 January 2008)
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Review
Mammographic
density, breast cancer risk and risk prediction
Celine M Vachon, Carla H
van Gils, Thomas A Sellers, Karthik Ghosh, Sandhya Pruthi, Kathleen R Brandt, V
Shane Pankratz
Breast
Cancer Research
2007,9:217 (20 December 2007)
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