Projecting Individualized Absolute Invasive Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women

H. Gail, Mitchell; P. Costantino, Joseph; Pee, D.; L. Bondy, Melissa; A. Newman, Lisa; Tamil Selvan, M.; L. Anderson, Garnet; E. Malone, Kathleen; A. Marchbanks, Polly; McCaskill‐Stevens, Worta; A. Norman, S.; S. Simon, Michael; Spirtas, Robert; Ursin, Giske; Bernstein, Liane

doi:10.1093/jnci/djm223

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Projecting Individualized Absolute Invasive Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women

Published in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute • Nov 27, 2007

Authors:

Mitchell H. Gail

Joseph P. Costantino

D. Pee

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is widely used for counseling and determining eligibility for breast cancer prevention trials, although its validity for projecting risk in African American women is uncertain. We developed a model for projecti...

Subject

Breast cancer

Medicine

Absolute risk reduction

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