Mammographic density and breast cancer in three ethnic groups.

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Published in Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev on April 01, 2003

Authors

Giske Ursin1, Huiyan Ma, Anna H Wu, Leslie Bernstein, Martine Salane, Yuri R Parisky, Melvin Astrahan, Conchitina C Siozon, Malcolm C Pike

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Preventive Medicine, University of California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA. giske.ursin@basalmed.uio.no

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