Breast Cancer (Risk Assessment)

Graphs Enable Easy, Accurate Assessment of Potential Risk

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 25th, 1995

A series of graphs can now provide genetic counselors an accurate, easy method of predicting a woman's absolute risk of developing breast cancer.

The graphs were published in the December 1995 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, by University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, researcher John J. Mulvihill, and Jacques Benichou and Mitchell Gail, of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI).

The graphs were based on data from the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project, a large national study that monitored 280,000 women from 1973 to 1980 to determine risk factors associated with breast cancer. The findings resulted in what is called the Gail...

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