Sentences with phrase «breast density by»

Experts postulate consuming sugar may produce increased breast density by stimulating cell growth.

Research shows healthy women at high risk of breast cancer who took the medication for four - and - a-half years lowered their breast density by 6.4 percent, Diorio relates.

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«U.S. women's awareness of breast density varies by race, ethnicity, education and income.»

Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms atbreast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms atbreast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms atbreast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms atBreast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.

The study also found that the existing Nottingham Prognostic Index for breast cancer can be improved by including low mammographic breast density and HER2 status in the index.

«I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect — the doubling of breast density associated with combination - hormone therapy,» said McTiernan, lead physician of the WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, which is based at Fred Hutchinson.

The risk assessed by deCODE BreastCancer ™ is independent of conventional risk factors such as family history of breast cancer in close relatives, age at first menstrual period, pregnancy history, and breast density.

Potential cardioprotection was based on generally supportive data on lipid levels in intermediate outcome clinical trials, trials in nonhuman primates, and a large body of observational studies suggesting a 40 % to 50 % reduction in risk among users of either estrogen alone or, less frequently, combined estrogen and progestin.2 - 5 Hip fracture was designated as a secondary outcome, supported by observational data as well as clinical trials showing benefit for bone mineral density.6, 7 Invasive breast cancer was designated as a primary adverse outcome based on observational data.3, 8 Additional clinical outcomes chosen as secondary outcomes that may plausibly be affected by hormone therapy include other cardiovascular diseases; endometrial, colorectal, and other cancers; and other fractures.3, 6,9

The study included 266 healthy postmenopausal women with high breast density detected by routine mammograms.

The researchers found that the daughters» breast density as measured by MRI was associated with their mothers» breast density as measured by mammogram.

I just wanted women to be informed that they had another option, which is available to women of all ages, and not restricted by breast density, implants, or reconstruction.

The study included 266 healthy postmenopausal women with high breast density detected by routine mammograms.

Even so, breast density measured by MRI and mammography are highly correlated (r > 0.75; refs.

82, 83) and high breast density, whether assessed by a volumetric method or by mammography, is similarly positively associated with breast cancer risk (2, 84).