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Cancer: Risk Factors in Developing Countries
Cancer is a significant health burden in developing countries, where the causes and risk factors can vary due to unique environmental, socioeconomic,... -
Risk Factors for Skin Cancer
The causes of skin cancer are influenced by risk factors related to the environment and inherent genetics. The latter determine certain cancer... -
Polygenic risk scores, radiation treatment exposures and subsequent cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors
Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk for subsequent cancers attributable to the late effects of radiotherapy and other treatment...
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Risk-Reducing Surgery for Breast Cancer
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in identifying women with genetic predisposition and this has been facilitated by enhanced... -
Hereditary Breast Cancer. Risk- Assessment, Screening and Risk- Reduction Strategies
Hereditary breast cancer is a complex and challenging clinical entity, representing about 10% of all breast cancer cases. Most hereditary breast... -
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Models and Multi-Cancer Early Detection Tests
Optimal healthcare policies require assessment of cancer risk at the individual level, especially for more common diseases like breast cancer. As... -
Integrating Lean Healthcare and Machine Learning for Cancer Risk Prediction
The rising global threat of cancer has gained significant attention within the scientific community. The integration of Lean Healthcare principles... -
Endometrial Cancer with High-Risk Histology
Endometrial cancer with high risk histologies represents a smaller fraction, but accounts for higher mortality due to disease than the more common... -
Following the High-Risk Patient: Breast Cancer Risk-Based Screening
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer occurring in women in the USA today, and accounts for more than 40,000 deaths annually (Giaquinto in CA...
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Hybrid Selection of Breast Cancer Risk Factors in Cuban Patients
Breast cancer is a worldwide public health problem, a disease that, although its risk factors are recognized by international health institutions,... -
Increased risk of contralateral breast cancer for BRCA1/2 wild-type, high-risk Korean breast cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate the contralateral breast cancer (CBC) recurrence rate in Korean breast cancer patients according to their BRCA1/2...
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Screening and Risk Reduction Strategies for Breast Cancer Imaging Modality and Risk-Reduction Approaches
This book provides readers with the most up-to-date practical information on breast cancer screening. Since breast cancers are highly heterogeneous,...
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Canadians’ knowledge of cancer risk factors and belief in cancer myths
BackgroundMany untrue statements about cancer prevention and risks are circulating. The objective of this study was to assess Canadians’ awareness of...
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Risk of second primary thyroid cancer in cancer survivors
A risk factor for thyroid cancer (TC) may be a history of former cancer and cancer therapy. The precise risk of a second primary thyroid carcinoma...
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Does cannabis elevate cancer risk?
BackgroundCannabis use is increasing annually but the relationship between cannabis use and cancer incidence is not uniform because of confounding...
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Breast Cancer Risk Perceptions Among Underserved, Hispanic Women: Implications for Risk-Based Approaches to Screening
BackgroundUnderstanding factors that shape breast cancer risk perceptions is essential for implementing risk-based approaches to breast cancer...
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Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants
The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across...
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Family History and the Risk of Breast and Gastric Cancer
Epidemiologists have used family history, usually of first-degree relatives, as a marker for genetic risk, knowing that family history reflects the... -
Enhancing Breast Cancer Risk Prediction by Incorporating Prior Images
Recently, deep learning models have shown the potential to predict breast cancer risk and enable targeted screening strategies, but current models do... -
Genetic risk assessment of lethal prostate cancer using polygenic risk score and hereditary cancer susceptibility genes
BackgroundThe genetic risk of aggressive prostate cancer (PCa) is hard to be assessed due to the lack of aggressiveness-related single-nucleotide...