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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....."