Assessment of the Accuracy of the Gail Model in Women With Atypical Hyperplasia
V. Shane Pankratz, Lynn C. Hartmann, Amy C. Degnim, Robert A. Vierkant, Karthik Ghosh, Celine M. Vachon, Marlene H. Frost, Shaun D. Maloney, Carol Reynolds, and Judy C. Boughey
J Clin Oncol 26:5374-5379, 2008
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The Gail model significantly underestimates the risk of breast cancer in women with atypia. Its ability to discriminate women with atypia into those who did and did not develop breast cancer is limited. Health care professionals should be cautious when using the Gail model to counsel individual patients with atypia
