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Chemoprevention of breast cancer among women at elevated risk as defined by Gail Score.
Minerva ginecologica - 1 Aug 2015
Micallef S, Micallef D, Schembri-Wismayer P, Brincat M P, Calleja-Agius J
Abstract excerpt
The risk of an individual woman to develop breast cancer over a 5-year period can be estimated using the Gail Model. The risk factors included in this model effectively classify patients into two different subgroups. One subgroup comprises patients at increased risk because of increased exposure to estrogen. These women are more likely to benefit from endocrine chemopreventive therapies, namely selective estrogen...
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