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- Title
The Risk of Cancer Risk Prediction: "What Is My Risk of Getting Breast Cancer?".
- Authors
Elmore, Joann G.; Fletcher, Suzanne W.
- Abstract
The article discusses the usefulness of risk prediction models in helping individual patients in estimating their personal chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer. The 2004 Institute of Medicine report on breast cancer screening identified individual risk assessment as essential to early detection of breast cancer. The best-known breast cancer risk prediction model is the Gail model.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer; HEALTH risk assessment; PREVENTIVE medicine; CANCER in women; WOMEN'S health
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2006, Vol 98, Issue 23, p1673
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djj501