Impact of short-term low-dose tamoxifen on molecular breast imaging background parenchymal uptake: a pilot study
Hruska CB, Hunt KN, Conners AL, Geske JR, Brandt KR, Degnim AC, Vachon CM, O’Connor M, Rhodes DJ. Impact of short-term low-dose tamoxifen on molecular breast imaging background parenchymal uptake: a pilot study. Breast Cancer Research 2019, 21: 38. PMID: 30850011, PMCID: PMC6408779, DOI: 10.1186/s13058-019-1120-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow-dose tamoxifenMolecular breast imagingBackground parenchymal uptakeOral tamoxifenParenchymal uptakeBreast cancer risk reductionBreast cancer risk factorsEffectiveness of tamoxifenCancer risk factorsCancer risk reductionBreast cancer historyShort-term interventionMean ageCancer historyRisk factorsBreast fibroglandular tissueTamoxifenMolecular breastAverage countStudy participantsSubcutaneous fatPilot studyWomenT-testIntervention