Breast cancer risk assessment: Evaluation of screening tools for genetics referral
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Evaluation of breast cancer risk assessment packages in the family history evaluation and screening programme.
INTRODUCTION Accurate individualised breast cancer risk assessment is essential to provide risk-benefit analysis prior to initiating interventions designed to lower breast cancer risk. Several mathematical models for the estimation of individual breast cancer risk have been proposed. However, no single model integrates family history, hormonal factors, and benign breast disease in a comprehensi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2327-6924
DOI: 10.1097/jxx.0000000000000272