Vachon CM

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2002-2019

Study types

  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
2019
Impact of short-term low-dose tamoxifen on molecular breast imaging background parenchymal uptake: a pilot study.
Breast cancer research : BCR ·doi:10.1186/s13058-019-1120-5

BackgroundHigh background parenchymal uptake (BPU) on molecular breast imaging (MBI) has been identified as a breast cancer risk factor. We explored the feasibility of offering a short-term intervention of low-dose oral tamoxifen to women w…

2016
No clinical utility of KRAS variant rs61764370 for ovarian or breast cancer.
Gynecologic Oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.04.034

ObjectiveClinical genetic testing is commercially available for rs61764370, an inherited variant residing in a KRAS 3' UTR microRNA binding site, based on suggested associations with increased ovarian and breast cancer risk as well as with …

article 2002
Postmenopausal cancer risk after self‐reported endometriosis diagnosis in the Iowa Women's Health Study
Cancer ·doi:10.1002/cncr.10370

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis, the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus, has an estimated prevalence between 4% and 10%. A recent study reported that women with a hospital discharge diagnosis of endometriosis were at increased risk…