Tag: Founder effects

• Breast and Ovarian Cancer Screening

  I am sometimes troubled by the concept of risk. I mean how can we possibly decide whether or not a risk is acceptable? No matter the statistics, if the issue under consideration doesn’t happen, then the risk assumed was acceptable. So far, so good. But of course the converse is also true: no matter how low the risk,…

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  November 12, 2014

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  BRCA gene, BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, cancer, cancer screening, Founder effects, guessing, hereditary breast cancer, lottery, male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prediction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, risk, Risk of medicai, Statistics, triple negative breast cancer