Assessment of salivary cadmium levels and breast density in the Marin Women's Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to determine if salivary cadmium (Cd) levels had any association with breast density, hoping to establish a less invasive cost-effective method of stratifying Cd burden as an environmental breast cancer risk factor.

Methods

Salivary Cd levels were quantified from the Marin Women's Study, a Marin County, California population composite. Volumetric compositional breast density (BD_sxa ) data were measured by single x-ray absorptiometry techniques. Digital screening mammography was performed by the San Francisco Mammography Registry. Radiologists reviewed mammograms and assigned a Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System score. Early morning salivary Cd samples were assayed. Association analyses were then performed.

Results

Cd was quantifiab

SUBMITTER: George MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10831917 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature