ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2014
Development of a risk assessment tool for projecting individualized probabilities of developing breast cancer for Chinese women.
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- Development and performance of female breast cancer incidence risk prediction models: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of prediction models for risk of breast cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review and quality assessment of individualised breast cancer risk prediction models.British journal of cancer · 2019Pooled it
- Analysis of Lifestyle and Genetic Risk Factors in Urban Women in China Who Had Malignant or Suspected Malignant Breast Nodules Identified via Breast Cancer Screening.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Clinical Prediction Model for Breast Cancer in Women Having Their First Mammogram.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The current status of risk-stratified breast screening.British journal of cancer · 2022Review
- Occupational risk factors and breast cancer in Beijing, China: a hospital-based case-control study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Development and external validation of a breast cancer absolute risk prediction model in Chinese population.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2021Article
- Breast Cancer Risk Prediction in Korean Women: Review and Perspectives on Personalized Breast Cancer Screening.Journal of breast cancer · 2020Review
- Risk prediction for breast Cancer in Han Chinese women based on a cause-specific Hazard model.BMC cancer · 2019Article
- Development of diagnostic SCAR markers for genomic DNA amplifications in breast carcinoma by DNA cloning of high-GC RAMP-PCR fragments.Oncotarget · 2017Article
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Abstract
The optimal approach regarding breast cancer screening for Chinese women is unclear due to the relative low incidence rate. A risk assessment tool may be useful for selection of high-risk subsets of population for mammography screening in low-incidence and resource-limited developing country. The odd ratios for six main risk factors of breast cancer were pooled by review manager after a systematic research of literature. Health risk appraisal (HRA) model was developed to predict an individual's risk of developing breast cancer in the next 5 years from current age. The performance of this HRA model was assessed based on a first-round screening database. Estimated risk of breast cancer increased with age. Increases in the 5-year risk of developing breast cancer were found with the existence of any of included risk factors. When individuals who had risk above median risk (3.3‰) were selected from the validation database, the sensitivity is 60.0% and the specificity is 47.8%. The unweighted area under the curve (AUC) was 0.64 (95% CI = 0.50-0.78). The risk-prediction model reported in this article is based on a combination of risk factors and shows good overall predictive power, but it is still weak at predicting which particular women will develop the disease. It would be very helpful for the improvement of a current model if more population-based prospective follow-up studies were used for the validation.
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