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Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer: A New Challenge

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Many people still do not know or place obliquely the importance of other risk factors which are different from the classic ones (menstrual-reproductive history, family history of cancer). As a consequence, the former ones could appear as inexistent. Despite any kind of purpose of such attitude – a fact that we will not analyze here – we should remark that it has an important weight for the public opinion and also at an individual level, especially if comments proceed from specialists who can be considered as opinion leaders.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Scientific Methods, IUCLAEH School of Medicine, Convención 1490 dep. 202, 11100, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Alvaro Luis Ronco

  2. School of Medicine Department of Pathology Epidemiology Group, Universidad de la República, Av. Brasil 3080 dep. 402, 11300, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Eduardo De Stéfani

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Ronco, A.L., De Stéfani, E. (2012). Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer: A New Challenge. In: Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2397-9_15

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