Breast Cancer
Findings in Breast Cancer Reported from National Cancer Institute
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 11th, 2011
2011 AUG 11 -- According to the authors of recent research from Bethesda, Maryland, "This paper defines absolute risk and some of its properties, and presents applications in breast cancer counseling and prevention. For counseling, estimates of absolute risk give useful perspective and can be used in management decisions that require weighing risks and benefits, such as whether or not to take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer."
"Absolute risk models are also useful in designing intervention trials to prevent breast cancer and in assessing the potential reductions in absolute risk of disease that might result from reducing exposures that are associated with...
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