num_pages: 115
description: Why This Book? Previous books have covered risk factors, but now you can learn how these risks are assembled into a personal profile, Learn why the most popular model for risk assessment can often be the most misleading.Realize that women without known risk factors are still at a significant risk for developing breast cancer.Understand how important your personal risk profile becomes when you begin to make other health care decisions.Appreciate how media-supported studies of risk factors frequently become distorted.Discover that there are protective factors that can offset risk factors, as well as the option of chemoprevention.Gaze into a crystal ball and visulaize the future of risk assessment.
language: English
title: The Truth About Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
titlecomplete: The Truth About Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
publisher: Natl Writers Pr