The relationship of mammographic density and age: Implications for breast cancer. AJR, March 2012, Vol. 198(3), p. W292-295.
Checka, C.M., et al.
http://www.ajronline.org/content/198/3/W292.abstract?rss=1
Breast density is increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for the development of breast cancer, because it has been shown to be associated with a four- to sixfold increase in a woman’s risk of malignant breast disease. Increased breast density as identified on mammography is also known to decrease the diagnostic sensitivity of the examination, which is of great concern to women at increased risk for breast cancer.
