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Risk determination and prevention of breast cancer

Overview of attention for article published in Breast Cancer Research, September 2014
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Title
Risk determination and prevention of breast cancer
Published in
Breast Cancer Research, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/s13058-014-0446-2
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Authors

Anthony Howell, Annie S Anderson, Robert B Clarke, Stephen W Duffy, D Gareth Evans, Montserat Garcia-Closas, Andy J Gescher, Timothy J Key, John M Saxton, Michelle N Harvie

Abstract

Breast cancer is an increasing public health problem. Substantial advances have been made in the treatment of breast cancer, but the introduction of methods to predict women at elevated risk and prevent the disease has been less successful. Here, we summarize recent data on newer approaches to risk prediction, available approaches to prevention, how new approaches may be made, and the difficult problem of using what we already know to prevent breast cancer in populations. During 2012, the Breast Cancer Campaign facilitated a series of workshops, each covering a specialty area of breast cancer to identify gaps in our knowledge. The risk-and-prevention panel involved in this exercise was asked to expand and update its report and review recent relevant peer-reviewed literature. The enlarged position paper presented here highlights the key gaps in risk-and-prevention research that were identified, together with recommendations for action. The panel estimated from the relevant literature that potentially 50% of breast cancer could be prevented in the subgroup of women at high and moderate risk of breast cancer by using current chemoprevention (tamoxifen, raloxifene, exemestane, and anastrozole) and that, in all women, lifestyle measures, including weight control, exercise, and moderating alcohol intake, could reduce breast cancer risk by about 30%. Risk may be estimated by standard models potentially with the addition of, for example, mammographic density and appropriate single-nucleotide polymorphisms. This review expands on four areas: (a) the prediction of breast cancer risk, (b) the evidence for the effectiveness of preventive therapy and lifestyle approaches to prevention, (c) how understanding the biology of the breast may lead to new targets for prevention, and (d) a summary of published guidelines for preventive approaches and measures required for their implementation. We hope that efforts to fill these and other gaps will lead to considerable advances in our efforts to predict risk and prevent breast cancer over the next 10 years.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Brunei Darussalam 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 759 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 131 17%
Student > Master 127 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 10%
Researcher 61 8%
Student > Postgraduate 51 7%
Other 136 18%
Unknown 185 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 184 24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 98 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 70 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 60 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 31 4%
Other 119 15%
Unknown 206 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2022.
All research outputs
#812,269
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Breast Cancer Research
#64
of 2,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,470
of 263,725 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Breast Cancer Research
#2
of 44 outputs
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