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Monday, May 23, 2011

Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Updated for Asian-Americans - NIH Research Matters - National Institutes of Health (NIH)



"...The new model can assess risk separately for American women who identify themselves as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander or other Asian. Compared with the AABCS, the researchers found, the original assessment tool overestimated risk for Chinese and Filipino women, and underestimated risk for Hawaiian women....."

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  1. Great to stumble on your blog. Best of luck with everything in life! Have you heard about FAMEDS cause? As the only patient advocate non-profit org fighting the FDA for Avastin to continued to be used by 17,500 women with metastatic breast cancer. Please sign and share the petition: http://fameds.org/petition.php

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