Benign breast disease and breast cancer risk: morphology and beyond.

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Evidence from clinical follow-up studies has indicated that there is a relationship between the presence of histologically proven benign breast disease and breast cancer risk and that the level of risk varies according to the histologic category of benign breast disease. In particular, proliferative lesions without atypia are associated with a 1.5- to 2-fold increase in risk, whereas atypical hyperplasias are...

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