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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Breast cancer risk"”.
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Calcium metabolism and breast cancer risk
… vitamin D and parathyroid hormone (PTH), affect breast cancer risk. The associations between serum calcium levels and breast cancer risk, between serum calcium levels and known risk factors of breast cancer, and between serum calcium levels and breast cancer aggressiveness were examined within …
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Prediction, Communication, and Distribution of Breast Cancer Risk
… group in the United States (US) for which breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer deaths. Despite the availability of tools to assess breast cancer risk, relatively little is known about the performance of current breast cancer risk prediction …
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Life Style, Molecular Pathology, and Breast Cancer Risk
The breast cancer diagnosis covers a wide range of tumours with different geno- and phenotypic characteristics. The diversity among studies on life-style factors and their impact on breast cancer risk might be clarified by recognizing breast cancer as a heterogeneous disease. A major aim of this …
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TACTILE AND MULTISPECTRAL BIMODAL IMAGING FOR BREAST CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT
American Cancer Society estimates that in 2021 nearly 300,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and about 43,600 women will die from breast cancer. While many have access to health care and cancer screening, women from rural or underdeveloped communities …
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Improving breast cancer risk assessment with image-based deep learning models
Discriminative models for breast cancer risk prediction are needed in order to provide personalized patient care. Existing breast cancer risk models incorporate information about breast tissue using imaging biomarkers such as density scores. However, these imaging biomarkers are limited in that …
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Assessing the impact of non-coding mutations on breast cancer risk predisposition genes
… efforts into women diagnosed with a Hereditary Breast or Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) has led to an improved understanding of the disease in some aspects, such as women with BRCA mutations. However, this is not the case for BRCAx patients (women diagnosed with a HBOC of unknown genetic cause), whose …
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Breast Cancer Risk - Environmental and Genetic Effects on Cancer Development, Progression and Survival
Breast cancer is a common, complex multifactorial disease which has an estimated risk in the UK of 1 in 9 women. Due to its prevalence there has been a great deal of research carried out to identify risk and prognostic factors which are involved in its pathogenesis. By reviewing this vast array of …
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Mammographic breast density as a mediator and surrogate marker for breast cancer risk
… density have a four to six-fold increased risk of breast cancer when compared to the ones with the least dense breasts. Mammographic breast density has also been associated with a wide array of factors related to the risk of breast cancer including age, menopausal status, age at first live …
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Long-term Geospatial Access to Food Environment and Breast Cancer Risk in Metropolitan Chicago
… of health, yet their long-term impact on cancer outcomes remains poorly understood. Previous studies have cross-sectionally measured exposure at diagnosis, providing only a snapshot of exposure. This dissertation addressed this gap by examining how long-term cumulative access to healthy …
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EXAMINING BACKGROUND PARENCHYMAL ENHANCEMENT AS A NOVEL BIOMARKER FOR BREAST CANCER RISK IN BLACK WOMEN
Although breast cancer mortality rates have declined over recent decades, it remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Stark racial disparities persist, with Black women more likely than White women to be diagnosed at later stages and with more aggressive …
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Breast Cancer Risk Perception, Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Screening Behaviors of Chamorro Women in Guam
Background: Breast cancer is a serious public health issue in Guam and in the world. Chamorro women in Guam have the highest incidence and mortality rates of breast cancer among other ethnic groups of women living in Guam. Early detection reduces breast cancer morbidity and mortality. Little is …
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Breast Cancer Risk For Female Relatives of Male Breast Cancer Patients With Negative Brca1/2 Testing
<p>Risk models exist to estimate a female’s lifetime risk of breast cancer in the absence of a hereditary predisposition to cancer, namely Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome. These risk models consider various factors such as reproductive history and family history, but few models take a …
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Women Receiving Genetic Counseling for Breast Cancer Risk: Cancer Worry, Psychological Distress, and Risk Recall Accuracy
… wherein women receiving genetic counseling for breast cancer risk were randomized into two groups. Subjects receiving an audiotaped recording of their genetic consultation (tape group) were compared to subjects who also had a genetic consultation but did not receive an audiotaped recording of it …
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Ambient Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk in a Population-Based Canadian Case-Control Study
… research investigating ambient PAH exposures and breast cancer risk. Additionally, PAHs have seldom been modelled at the population-level for epidemiological application, and current methods for assessment of long-term exposure are limited. This thesis evaluated associations between long-term …
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Missed Breast Cancer Risk Factors and Clinicopathologic Features: A Six-Year Analysis of Data from a Single Institution
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, but mortality has been consistently decreasing due to the introduction of screening mammography and continual innovations in treatment [1,13,15]. However, cancers missed on screening and diagnostic imaging studies …
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How Diet Influences Breast Cancer Risk: Analysis of Tissue Fat, Nutrients, and a Dietary Pattern among High-Risk Women
… An estimated one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Heredity, time, lifestyle, and chance determine whether and when someone develops the disease. Importantly, behavior explains the majority of the variation in breast cancer risk. Understanding how diet influences breast cancer risk …
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Lifetime Occupational Exposure to Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk: A Montreal-based Case-control Study (2008-2011)
… estrogen exposure, may elevate postmenopausal breast cancer risk. Despite evidence from environmental studies, few studies on EDCs have analyzed lifetime occupational exposures and most fail to account for complex mixtures encountered in workplaces across susceptible windows of breast …
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Breast Cancer Risk in Women with Breast Bilateral Asymmetry: Machine Learning Based Risk Analysis and Mitigation through Developing a Framework for Customized Bra Design
Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer globally, accounting for 12.5% of all new cases annually. Research has found a significant correlation between breast bilateral asymmetry and an increased risk of cancer, with women diagnosed with breast cancer having higher levels of bilateral …
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Thyroid hormones and breast cancer-prospective studies on incidence, mortality and prognostic factors
Thyroid hormones and breast cancer-prospective studies on incidence, mortality and prognostic factors The aim of this thesis was to investigate in a prospective design, thyroid hormones in relation to breast cancer risk, mortality and prognostic factors. The association between total …
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