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To identify groups of women with an increased risk of developing breast cancer within a given population it is necessary to characterize so-called risk factors. The first hints are given by epidemiological examinations of the geographic distribution of breast cancer. These examinations are followed by observations of etiological and pathological factors, which lead to a series of hypotheses. So far none of these hypotheses has been confirmed by analytical, especially hormone analytical, investigations. Moreover — apart from small subgroups — no specific and clear discrimination between a high-risk and low-risk population is possible.
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Maass, H. (1985). Identification of a High-Risk Population. In: Zander, J., Baltzer, J. (eds) Early Breast Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70192-4_10
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