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[Screening for breast cancer on basis of individual risk assessment for women ineligible for the national population screening program].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 20 Jan 2001
van Asperen C J, de Bock G H, van der Horst F, de Koning H J, Rutgers E J
Abstract excerpt
For healthy women, without malignancies in their personal histories, a positive family history for breast cancer is the single indication for individual breast surveillance outside the population screening. Management of women is based on individual risk assessment. A cumulative risk of 20% and more, as a result of a positive family history, will in practice be an indication for breast surveillance. This...
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