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BRCA and beyond: a genome-first approach to familial breast cancer risk assessment.
Discovery medicine - 1 Nov 2011
Trainer Alison H, Thompson Ella, James Paul A
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer affects around 12% of women in the Western world, but individual lifetime risks vary significantly within any population. Currently, familial cancer services assess and manage familial breast cancer risk based on the presence of a family history of the condition or the identification of high-risk breast cancer susceptibility alleles. This model of clinical care provides an accurate genetic risk...
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