Proportion of Breast Cancer Cases in the United States Explained by Well-Established Risk Factors

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "Background: Few estimates of the fraction of cases of breast cancer attributable to recognized risk factors have been published. All estimates are based on selected groups, making their generalizability to the U.S. population uncertain. Purpose: Our goal was to estimate the fraction of breast cancer cases in the United States attributable to well-established risk factors (i.e., later age at first birth, nulliparity, higher family income, and first-degree family history of breast cancer), using data from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...

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