No Link Between Breast Density and Cancer

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"In a retrospective study of more than 50,000 Croatian women who had screening mammography, there was no significant difference in mammographic breast density between cancer patients and controls, Natasa Katavic, MD, of Health Center Osijek in Croatia, and colleagues reported in their findings at theRadiological Society of North America meeting here

Our study suggests that breast density alone might not be a strong independent risk factor for breast cancer," she said. "In risk assessment, all risk factors should be considered before decisions on additional examinations."......

"The research has existed for some time that density has to be understood in the context of being at increased risk of a diagnosis of breast cancer versus density simply obscuring a cancer and contributing to it being diagnosed later."