Wolfe has suggested that the mammographic parenchymal patterns can be used to identify a group with high incidence of breast cancer. To evaluate this claim, mammograms of women with breast cancer that was detected at the Universtiy of Michigan Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project have been classified and compared with a randomly selected control group from the same project. The basic mammographic classifications as defined by Wolfe were used with further refinements made in the DY and QDY groups. The mammographic classifications have been grouped according to the degree of density and age. For all ages combined, our dense classifications (DY1 DY2, DYc̄, QDY2) show a higher incident rate, 22/1000, than the lucent classification (N1, P1; and QDY1), 9/1000, (P
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Threatt, B., Norbeck, J. M., Ullman, N. S., Kummer, R., & Roselle, P. (1980). Association between mammographic parenchymal pattern classification and incidence of breast cancer. Cancer, 45(10), 2550–2556. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19800515)45:10<2550::AID-CNCR2820451013>3.0.CO;2-M
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