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Determining Breast Cancer Risk Factors
17 hours ago ago from Fight the Fight Against Cancer
Medical researches attempt to define risk factors in order to discover who is most likely to get a particular disease and also to find clues as to the disease's cause and thus to the prevention and cure. A risk factor is usually determined by taking a large population of people say 1,000-2,000 or more and identifying a variety of features about them, determining who gets the disease under study and then seeing what the relationship is ...
Related contentAssessing Breast Cancer Mortality Rate
17 hours ago ago from Fight the Fight Against Cancer
In the United States as a whole, breast cancer mortality rates have turned down to some extent in current years. That this is a recent trend is obvious from the fact that as long as the twenty years from 1970-1990, death rates demonstrated a small but considerable growth for white women of roughly 0.3 percent per year and a more considerable upsurge of 1.6 percent for black women. In the United States, current view comes out to lend more ...
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4 hours ago ago from Health Tips
Many women all over the world fear breast cancer. It is a killer! It is one of the leading causes of death for women and even men are not immune. Not that long ago a diagnosis of breast cancer would have been like receiving a death sentence! That's because it was often fatal. However, things are different today because of the amazing advances in medical science in the area of breast cancer research. For example, a lot more ...
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20 hours ago ago from Health Press
Using known risk factors for breast cancer, mathematical models can be developed to help answer important questions. These mathematical models are useful tools for researchers and for patients as follows: 1. Research on risk factors The Claus risk assessment model was used to discover the subpopulation of people who had an autosomal dominant genetic allele that increased their risk from 10% to 92%. This led to the discovery of the BRCA ...
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BBC News - Cervical cancer link to early sex
13 hours ago ago from BBC
Sexually transmitted infection, HPV, causes most cases of cervical cancer Having sex at an early age can double the risk of developing cervical cancer, a study of 20,000 women suggests. The investigation into why poorer women have a higher risk of the disease found they tended to have sex about four years earlier than more affluent women. Previously, it had been thought the disparity was the result of low screening uptake in ...
Related contentMaine to Label Cell Phones With Graphic Cancer Warnings?
9 hours ago ago from Switched
Cell phones cause cancer , don't cause cancer , might cause cancer, who knows? Well, Maine State Legislator Andrea Boland at least claims to know. She plans to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would require phones to carry warnings saying that they can cause brain cancer. Apparently unconcerned with things like scientific consensus, Boland wants Maine to become the first in the nation to require such warnings. ...
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