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This chapter considers three aspects of breast cancer risk in women. The first relates to an individual woman’s degree of risk for developing breast cancer during her lifetime. This knowledge will guide her and her medical advisors on how much effort she should apply to measures that might reduce her risk of breast cancer. The second relates to the importance in the population of the various risk factors for breast cancer and the proportion of deaths from breast cancer that might be averted by screening, if specific programmes were directed to each risk factor.
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Miller, A.B., Schechter, M.T. (1989). Calculating a Woman’s Degree of Risk. In: Stoll, B.A. (eds) Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer. Developments in Oncology, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1327-1_7
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