Benign breast disease (BBD) is a broad category of diagnoses reported to convey a variable
degree of increased risk of developing breast cancer. A meta-analysis of the existing …

Women at high risk of developing breast cancer are a heterogeneous group of women
including those with and without high-risk germline mutation/s. Prevention in these women …

This 2004 volume in the World Health Organization series on histologic and genetic typing
of human tumors covers tumors of the kidney, urinary system, prostate, testis and …

Background Benign breast disease is an important risk factor for breast cancer. We studied a
large group of women with benign breast disease to obtain reliable estimates of this risk …

ContextThe clinical breast examination (CBE) is widely recommended and practiced as a
tool for breast cancer screening; however, its effectiveness is dependent on its precision and …

Established risk factors for breast cancer explain breast cancer risk only partially. Hence,
there has been interest in evaluating what role environmental chemicals, especially those …

OBJECTIVE: To identify from the literature and clinical experience a rational approach to
management of fibroadenomas of the breast. METHOD: Recent literature on detection …

Fibroadenomas are the most common breast tumors in women under 30 (refs.,). Exome
sequencing of eight fibroadenomas with matching whole-blood samples revealed recurrent …

Background Radial scars are benign breast lesions of uncertain clinical significance. In
particular, it is not known whether these lesions alter the risk of breast cancer in women with …

Background: The activity of the ribonucleoprotein enzyme telomerase is not detected in
normal somatic cells; thus, with each cell division, the ends of chromosomes consisting of …