Sentence examples for a breast density of from inspiring English sources

The relative risk of breast cancer for a women with a breast density of 5 24% (∼15%), compared with a woman with a breast density of <5% (∼3%), is 1.79 (95% CI 1.48 2.16; McCormack and dos Santos Silva, 2006).

The subject is a 49-year-old premenopausal female with IDC in the upper outer quadrant of the left breast and with a breast density of BI-RADS 4 (Patient #5).

For example, Cuzick and colleagues [ 59] showed that tamoxifen-treated patients with a reduction in breast density of at least 10% experienced a 63% reduction in breast cancer risk (odds ratio 0.37, 95% CI 0.20 to 0.69) but that tamoxifen-treated patients with a reduction in breast density of less than 10% showed no risk reduction.

Postmenopausal women undergo a mean decrease in volumetric breast density of 0.25% (percentage points) per year, largely due to an increase in nondense breast volume.

Previous studies have shown similar results when the breast density of a random side (right or left) or the average of the two are used [ 16].

This lesion is a 16 mm DCIS tumor in a 25-year-old subject with breast density of BI-RADS 4.

The semi-automatic threshold technique to estimate the breast density of patients showed a median breast density of 24 % with a standard deviation of 16%%.

Recently, Stone et al. demonstrated that assessing breast density of one breast in one projection is sufficient [15].

Our study aim was to compare visual assessment of breast density of experienced and inexperienced readers with semi-automated analysis of breast density.

We also used a thresholding approach using the Leica Qwin software package and showed similar results in breast densities of both breasts and in both projections [3].

The breast densities of the left and right breast were comparable (ICC 0.92, 95% CI 0.89 0.94) in the CC projection.