The combined effect of breast cancer risk factors
Abstract
An extension of the logistic model (Cox, 1970),4 is applied to the prospective study of breast cancer in Guernsey (Bulbrook and Hayward, 1967).2 Four important risk factors, age at menarche, family history, age at first birth and etiocholanolone excretion, are identified and shown to have additive effects on a logistic scale for the probability of developing breast cancer. The feasibility of screening a high risk group of women is considered and shown unlikely to be of practical value. Cancer 40:931–936, 1977.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Statistical methods for the identification and use of prognostic factorsInternational Journal of Cancer, 1974
- Theoretical Statistics1974
- Etiology of Human Breast Cancer: A Review2JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1973
- RELATION BETWEEN URINARY ANDROGEN AND CORTICOID EXCRETION AND SUBSEQUENT BREAST CANCERThe Lancet, 1971
- ABNORMAL URINARY STEROID EXCRETION AND SUBSEQUENT BREAST CANCERThe Lancet, 1967
- A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide ApplicabilityJournal of Applied Mechanics, 1951