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Mammographic density review articles published in Breast Cancer Research

Breast Cancer Research, a BioMed Central journal, has published the first articles in a new series on Mammographic Density, the latest of the journal's regular review series.

This series is edited by Dr Norman F Boyd from the University Health Network in Canada. The review from Vachon et al. summarises the relationship of density to risk and its potential use in risk prediction, and the review from Martin 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
Lisa J Martin, Norman 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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All research articles published in Breast Cancer Research are open access.

Frances Mulvany
In-house Editor, Breast Cancer Research

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