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Expanded Risk Model Identifies Women Who Need Additional Breast Cancer Screening – Diagnostic Imaging
A model that includes mammographic features, lifestyle factors, and genetic-based risk prediction scores can effectively pinpoint which women will likely receive an interval cancer diagnosis.
Creating a risk model that includes mammographic features, lifestyle factors, and genetics-based risk prediction scores can help providers identify which women at a high risk for breast cancer are most likely to develop the disease within two years of a negative screening. Providers can use those findings to direct these women for necessary supplemental screening.
With approximately 25 percent of all cancers being interval cancers those detected between regular screenings having this type of to…
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