The risk of cancer risk prediction: "What is my risk of getting breast cancer"?
Open Access
- 6 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 98 (23) , 1673-1675
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djj501
Abstract
Current breast cancer risk prediction models perform well for populations but poorly for individuals. Cancer risk information, now readily available through theKeywords
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