Mammographic density and ageing: A collaborative pooled analysis of cross-sectional data from 22 countries worldwide

Background: Mammographic density (MD) is one of the strongest breast cancer risk factors. Its age-related characteristics have been studied in women in western countries, but whether these associations apply to women worldwide is not known. Methods and findings: We examined cross-sectional differenc...

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Main Authors: Burton, A., Maskarinec, G., Perez-Gomez, B., Vachon, C., Miao, H., Lajous, M., López-Ridaura, R., Rice, M., Pereira, A., Garmendia, M.L., Tamimi, R.M., Bertrand, K., Kwong, A., Ursin, G., Lee, E., Qureshi, S.A., Ma, H., Vinnicombe, S., Moss, S., Allen, S., Ndumia, R., Vinayak, S., Teo, S.H., Mariapun, S., Fadzli, F., Peplonska, B., Bukowska, A., Nagata, C., Stone, J., Hopper, J., Giles, G., Ozmen, V., Aribal, M.E., Schüz, J., Van Gils, C.H., Wanders, J.O.P., Sirous, R., Sirous, M., Hipwell, J., Kim, J., Lee, J.W., Dickens, C., Hartman, M., Chia, K.S., Scott, C., Chiarelli, A.M., Linton, L., Pollan, M., Flugelman, A.A., Salem, D., Kamal, R., Boyd, N., dos-Santos-Silva, I., McCormack, V.
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Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/19218/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002335
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