Benign breast lumps cancer link
Breast lesions can be picked up by scans
Women who have certain types of benign breast disease have far a higher risk for breast cancer, say US researchers.
Identifying and closely monitoring these women could help save lives, the Mayo Clinic team believe.
Although most non-cancerous breast lumps do not increase future risk of breast cancer, they found faster growing and more abnormal types did.
This finding, in the New England Journal of Medicine, held even if there was no family history of breast cancer.
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