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Risk and risk assessment for breast cancer: molecular and clinical aspects.
Maturitas - 20 May 2007
Beckmann M W, Bani M R, Fasching P A, Strick R, Lux M P
Abstract excerpt
Chemoprevention, prophylactic surgery and intensified screening programs are options which can be offered the patients with an increased lifetime risk (p(life)) for breast cancer (BC). Estimation of p(life) includes BRCA mutation analysis and risk estimation based on individual risk factors and family history. MENDEL and BRCAPRO are models which can estimate mutation carrier status probability (p(mut)), p(life)...
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