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Article: Breast cancer risk varies in young women with benign breast disease, Mayo Clinic researchers say.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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A type of benign breast disease (BBD) known as atypical hyperplasia substantially increases a young woman's risk of developing breast cancer, even if there is no history of breast cancer in her family, say researchers at Mayo Clinic (see also Mayo Clinic).
The investigators, who presented their findings at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center-American Association for Cancer Research (CTRC-AACR) San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, say the women they studied with this kind of benign breast disease had a relative risk of developing breast cancer that was almost six times greater than women with no evidence of the disease.
Young women diagnosed with two ...