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ArticleJournal of cancer treatment & diagnosis2018

Bridging the Data Gap in Breast Cancer Risk Assessment to Enable Widespread Clinical Implementation across the Multiethnic Landscape of the US.

Erika Spaeth, Athena Starlard-Davenport, Richard Allman

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Article in Journal of cancer treatment & diagnosis, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erika SpaethPhenogen Sciences Inc, Charlotte, NC 28269, USA.
Athena Starlard-DavenportDepartment of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Richard AllmanGenetic Technologies, Ltd, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia.

Funding

NIMHD NIH HHS L60 MD008232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Breast cancer risk assessment has been clinically available for nearly 30 years yet is under-utilized in practice for multiple reasons. Incorporation of polygenic risk as well as breast density measurements, promise to increase the accuracy of risk assessment. With that comes the hope that both prevention and screening become more personalized and thus more effective. Incidence rates have been static over the past 15 years and have even increased slightly in African American and Asian/Pacific Islander populations despite the robust data on breast cancer risk reduction measures that exist. Current challenges in reducing breast cancer incidence begin with robust data curation that allows for appropriate risk stratification across our multiethnic population and conclude with the implementation of prevention strategies within our fractured healthcare system.

Indexed as

Breast cancer risk assessmentEthnicityGeneral populationPolygenic riskPreventionRaceScreening

Identifiers

PMID30662981
PMCPMC6334765

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