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Your Breast Cancer Risk

From Tracee Cornforth, About.com GuideOctober 10, 2003

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Understanding Breast Cancer Risk
Are you frightened, even worried, when you hear the statistics about breast cancer risk? For most women, her greatest cancer fear is breast cancer. But how many women actually understand her true risk of breast cancer?

Patricia T. Kelly, Ph.D. is a medical geneticist who specializes in cancer risk assessment and counseling. We talked about hormone replacement therapy, hereditary factors, benign breast disease, the real meaning of statistics, genetic testing, and other issues that can affect personal breast cancer risk. Find out what she had to say.
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