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Risk Model Update & 2020 Recap | Dense Breast Info

Risk Model Update & 2020 Recap

January 18, 2021 by JoAnn Pushkin

Risk Model Tutorial Update:
New update! In addition to the known rare genetic mutations that increase breast cancer risk, there is increasing interest on the impact of more common variations on breast cancer risk. We have added a discussion of polygenic risk score to our Risk Model Tutorial / “Diagnostic Considerations” section.

2020 Recap
Thanks to you and with your help, in addition to the website launch, we had several more 2020 highlights:

  1. Despite COVID, we had over 200,000 visits to the website
  2. There were over 6,000 downloads of educational PDFs
  3. We introduced Patient Fact Sheets in 14 languages (more coming!)
  4. There are a growing number of groups linking to/sharing DB-i resources

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