Association of area- and volumetric-mammographic density and breast cancer risk in women of Asian descent: a case control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mammographic density (MD) has been shown to be a strong and independent risk factor for breast cancer in women of European and Asian descent. However, the majority of Asian studies to date have used BI-RADS as the scoring method and none have evaluated area and volumetric densities in the same cohort of women. This study aims to compare the association of MD measured by two automated methods with the risk of breast cancer in Asian women, and to investigate if the association is different for premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Methods

In this case-control study of 531 cases and 2297 controls, we evaluated the association of area-based MD measures and volumetric-based MD measures with breast cancer risk in Asian women using conditional logistic regression analy

SUBMITTER: Mariapun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11094942 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature