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Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms

Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms
Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms

Toral Gathani and colleagues argue that risk stratification by age and sex should be used to help manage demand on breast clinics efficiently to minimise delays in diagnosis

breast, breast neoplasms/epidemiology, female, humans, neoplasms, risk
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Gathani, Toral, Cutress, Ramsey, Dodwell, David, Horgan, Kieran, Kirwan, Cliona, Stobart, Hilary, Kan, Sau Wan, Reeves, Gillian and Sweetland, Sian (2023) Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 381, e073269, [e073269]. (doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-073269).

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Toral Gathani and colleagues argue that risk stratification by age and sex should be used to help manage demand on breast clinics efficiently to minimise delays in diagnosis

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Accepted/In Press date: 2023
Published date: 26 April 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have the following interests to declare. TG is a member of the Academic and Research Committee for the Association of Breast Surgery, the Clinical Advisory Panel for Cancer Research UK, and National Audit of Primary Breast Cancer Audit Advisory Committee. RIC is a trustee and chair of the Academic and Research Committee for the Association of Breast Surgery, a committee member for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, joint lead investigator for the EndoNET Trial, and has received research support from SECA and Astra-Zeneca. DD and KH are the oncology and surgical leads for the National Audit of Primary Breast Cancer. KH is the chair of the EndoNet Trial Steering Committee. GKR is a committee member for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. TG, SS, SWK, and/DD are funded in part by Cancer Research UK (C16077/A29186, C8225/A21133).
Keywords: breast, breast neoplasms/epidemiology, female, humans, neoplasms, risk

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Local EPrints ID: 477535
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477535
ISSN: 0959-8138
PURE UUID: 6fd2aec1-7257-42a5-8a45-ef5ac1e58725

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Date deposited: 07 Jun 2023 17:16
Last modified: 05 Jun 2024 18:25

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Author: Toral Gathani
Author: Ramsey Cutress
Author: David Dodwell
Author: Kieran Horgan
Author: Cliona Kirwan
Author: Hilary Stobart
Author: Sau Wan Kan
Author: Gillian Reeves
Author: Sian Sweetland

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