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Cancer risk assessment for the primary care physician.
Primary care - 1 Sept 2009
Korde Larissa A, Gadalla Shahinaz M
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Cancer risk assessment can be divided into two major categories: assessment of familial or genetic risk and assessment of environmental factors that may be causally related to cancer. Identification of individuals with a suspected heritable cancer syndrome can lead to additional evaluation and to interventions that can substantially decrease cancer...
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