A breast cancer prediction model incorporating familial and personal risk factors

Abstract An Erratum has been published for this article in Statistics in Medicine 2005; 24(1):156. Please note that the corresponding author's e‐mail address has now changed. For further details please click on the link below. DOI: 10.1002/sim.1913. Many factors determine a woman's risk of breast cancer. Some of them are genetic and relate to family history, others are based on personal factors such as reproductive history and medical history. While many papers have concentrated on subsets of these risk factors, no papers have incorporated personal risk factors with a detailed genetic analysis. There is a need to combine these factors to provide a better overall determinant of risk. The discovery of the BRCA1…