In our results the age dependent association between BMI and risk seemed to have a positive trend but it was not significant, which could be an indication that risk of interval cancer is not based solely on risk of developing the tumor.
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Mammographic density and risk of breast cancer by mode of detection and tumor size: a case-control study.
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Results For screen-detected cancer, the association with BMI had a marginally significant dependence on age at diagnosis, and after adjustment both DA and PDA were associated with risk (OPERA approximately 1.2) and gave a similar fit.
The differences in the association between risk and DA or PDA according to size of tumor were nominally significant.