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[Breast cancer: assessment of individual risk and possibilities for prevention].
Zeitschrift fur arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung - 1 Apr 2000
Kuschel B, Aba F, Lux M, Jap D, Bender H G, Beckmann M W
Abstract excerpt
Today, prevention of breast cancer (BC) is a great demand. The exact estimation of the individual BC-risk is a prerequisite for the participation on early cancer detection or the use of preventive medication or surgery. Various models for risk assessment of BC development or the presence of a predisposing mutation (i.e. BRCA1 or BRCA2) are used, but the statistical individual risk assessment still remains...
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