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6 th <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Workshop</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> <strong>Densitometry</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> Cancer Risk Assessment<br />
P23 CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT GROWTH PREDICTS MAMMOGRAPHIC<br />
DENSITY MEASURES ASSOCIATED WITH BREAST CANCER RISK IN MID-LIFE: A<br />
PROSPECTIVE STUDY<br />
John L. Hopper 1 , Jennifer St<strong>on</strong>e 1 , Carmel Apicella 1 , Linh T. Nguyen 1 , Quang M. Bui 1 , Gillian S. Dite 1 ,<br />
Daniel F. Schmidt 1 , Enes Makalic 1 , Melanie C Mathes<strong>on</strong> 1 , Shyamali Dharmage 1 , Graham G. Giles 2<br />
1 Centre for Molecular, Envir<strong>on</strong>mental, Genetic <strong>and</strong> Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne,<br />
Carlt<strong>on</strong> VIC 3053, Australia; 2 Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Carlt<strong>on</strong> VIC 3053,<br />
Australia<br />
Background: Mammographic density (MD) adjusted for age <strong>and</strong> body mass index (BMI) is associated<br />
with breast cancer risk. We c<strong>on</strong>ducted a prospective study to determine if growth in childhood <strong>and</strong><br />
adolescence predicts risk-associated MD.<br />
Methods: In 1968, the Tasmanian Asthma Study measured height <strong>and</strong> weight for almost all school<br />
children born in 1961. We obtained measured heights <strong>and</strong> weights for this cohort from annual school<br />
records for 1969 to 1977. Between 2009 <strong>and</strong> 2010, for 215 of these women we administered a<br />
questi<strong>on</strong>naire, including height <strong>and</strong> weight, <strong>and</strong> digitised at least <strong>on</strong>e mammogram. Absolute <strong>and</strong> percent<br />
MD were measured using the computer-assisted method Cumulus. Preece-Baines growth curves were<br />
fitted <strong>and</strong> missing data imputed under a multivariate normal model. We used linear regressi<strong>on</strong> to assess<br />
the associati<strong>on</strong> between square root MD <strong>and</strong> covariates.<br />
Results: Both absolute <strong>and</strong> percent MD adjusted for age <strong>and</strong> current BMI were negatively associated with<br />
log BMI at each of ages 7 to 15, <strong>and</strong> positively associated with age at menarche. When fitted together, log<br />
BMI at age 15 remained negatively associated (p < 0.00001), explaining about 15% of the variance (cf.<br />