Among the factors of risk influencing the development of tumor to breast, especially the more aggressive variants, there would also density of breast. If, following a mammography the woman turns out to have a significant density of their breast tissue, should be more vigilant about the health of their breasts, and make all carefully controls required periodically, especially after the menopause.
As far as discovered by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (USA), with an increased level of breast density is a higher risk of developing Ductal carcinoma in situ, a cancer particularly insidious because it can easily become invasive.
Following a study involving 2836 women, 1042 of whom were holdovers from the menopause and they had a diagnosis of breast cancer, and 1794 were healthy, the doctors, led by Dr. Rulla M. Tamimi, they found this very close relationship. All patients had undergone mammography to detect the density mammography, which is nothing but the composition of tissues of breast epithelial tissue, connective tissue and grease.
By analyzing and then crossing the data for all analysis, both women who were diagnosed with a tumor of the healthy patients, it could highlight undoubtedly a direct link between increased breast density and predisposition ductal carcinoma. “Our results suggest that breast density influences the risk of subtypes of tumor breast based on potentially different mechanisms.
Further studies are needed to explain the biological processes Basic and clarify possible routes to the high breast density for specific subtypes of breast cancer “, American researchers said. The research was published on the website of the journal Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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