Assessing individual risk for breast cancer: Risky business

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 547-556

  McTiernan, Anne ^a   Gilligan, Mary Ann ^a,b   Redmond, Carol ^c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Etiology; Neoplasms; Risk; Risk assessment; Risk estimates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031010531     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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