Erschienen in:
01.11.2013 | Poster presentation
PB.11: Identifying women at high risk of developing breast cancer: implications of adjusting for inter-observer variability in visual analogue scale assessment of percentage breast density
verfasst von:
JC Sergeant, M Sperrin, L Bardwell, I Buchan, DG Evans, A Howell, SM Astley
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 1/2013
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Excerpt
Breast density is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer, with assessment of percentage density via a visual analogue scale (VAS) a practical method of measurement strongly associated with risk. We present a method to adjust for inter-observer differences in VAS density estimates and examine the effect of adjustment on the classification of women at high risk of developing breast cancer. …