Breast cancer tumors grow faster in younger women
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
A new approach to estimating tumour growth based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women is published today BioMed Central`s open access journal, Breast Cancer Research. This new model can also estimate the proportion of breast cancers which are detected at screening (screen test sensitivity). It provides a new approach to simultaneously estimating the growth rate of breast cancer and the ability of mammography screening to detect tumours.