Assessing individual risk for breast cancer: risky business.

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There is increasing demand for prediction of individual women's risk for breast cancer from women, clinicians, researchers, and health planners. Risk assessment for breast cancer is the process of identifying characteristics of an individual woman that are relevant to her risk, and combining those characteristics into a quantitative or qualitative risk profile. This article reviews and compares available methods...

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