Assessing and managing breast cancer risk: clinical tools for advising patients.

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Published in MedGenMed on January 14, 2004

Authors

Bernard Friedenson1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. molmeddoc@yahoo.com

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