Vitamin D and mammographic density in postmenopausal women: A cohort study nested within a chemoprevention trial

Background: Vitamin D may be important in the causal pathway to breast cancer (BC) by influencing mammographic breast density (MD). However, previous study results in postmenopausal women are inconsistent. Study objectives were to prospectively examine the relationship between biomarkers of vitamin...

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Main Author: Walker, Melanie
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8673