Nils BjurstamSummaryAffiliation: University Hospital of North Norway Country: Norway Publications
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Percentage density, Wolfe's and Tabár's mammographic patterns: agreement and association with risk factors for breast cancerInger T Gram
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Breivika, Norway
Breast Cancer Res 7:R854-61. 2005..The purpose of this report was to classify mammograms according to four methods and to examine their agreement and their relationship to selected risk factors for breast cancer...- Different measures of smoking exposure and mammographic density in postmenopausal Norwegian women: a cross-sectional studyYngve Bremnes
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Breast Cancer Res 9:R73. 2007..Cigarette smoking may have both carcinogenic effects and antiestrogenic effects on the breast tissue. We decided to examine the relationship between different measures of smoking exposure and mammographic density... 
The Gothenburg Breast Screening TrialNils Bjurstam
Department of Radiology, Center for Breast Imaging, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Cancer 97:2387-96. 2003..Although there is evidence for a reduction in breast carcinoma mortality with mammographic screening, some doubts have been expressed, and there is still uncertainty regarding the age specific effects...- Endogenous sex hormones, prolactin and mammographic density in postmenopausal Norwegian womenYngve Bremnes
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Int J Cancer 121:2506-11. 2007..Further, the authors found a positive but weak association between plasma estrone concentration and mammographic density, which appeared to be modified by IGF-I levels... - Different types of postmenopausal hormone therapy and mammographic density in Norwegian womenYngve Bremnes
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Int J Cancer 120:880-4. 2007..In summary, our study shows a statistical significant positive dose-response association between current use of the continuous E(2) plus NETA combination and both measures of mammographic density... - Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer: estimates of overdiagnosis from two trials of mammographic screening for breast cancerStephen W Duffy
Cancer Research UK Department of Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK
Breast Cancer Res 7:258-65. 2005..Our results suggest that overdiagnosis in mammography screening is a minor phenomenon, but further studies with very large numbers are required for more precise estimation... - Influence of review design on percentages of missed interval breast cancers: retrospective study of interval cancers in a population-based screening programSolveig Hofvind
Cancer Registry of Norway, Montebello, N 0310 Oslo, Norway
Radiology 237:437-43. 2005..To retrospectively investigate whether different review designs have an influence on the estimate of missed interval cancer in a population-based breast cancer screening program... - Importance of comparison of current and prior mammograms in breast cancer screeningAntonius A J Roelofs
Department of Radiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 10, 667 Radiology, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Radiology 242:70-7. 2007..To retrospectively determine the influence of comparing current mammograms with prior mammograms on breast cancer detection in screening and to investigate a protocol in which prior mammograms are viewed only when necessary... - Number and characteristics of breast cancer cases diagnosed in four periods in the screening interval of a biennial population-based screening programmeSolveig Hofvind
The Cancer Registry of Norway, Norway
J Med Screen 13:192-6. 2006.... - Insulin-like growth factor and mammographic density in postmenopausal Norwegian womenYngve Bremnes
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:57-62. 2007..These associations were found among noncurrent hormone therapy users but not among current users... - Metabolic and hormonal profiles: HDL cholesterol as a plausible biomarker of breast cancer risk. The Norwegian EBBA StudyAnne Sofie Furberg
Institute of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:33-40. 2005.... - Long-term effects of mammography screening: updated overview of the Swedish randomised trialsLennarth Nystrom
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Stockholm, Sweden
Lancet 359:909-19. 2002..RRs were calculated by the density method, with total person-time experience of the cohort by time interval of follow-up as a basis for estimating mortality rates. We calculated weighted RRs and 95% CI with the Mantel-Haenszel procedure...