An interactive audio and video telemedicine feasibility program was established to provide
counseling on breast cancer risk - reducing strategies for underserved, high - risk Alaskan native women through
Not exact matches
To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects
on absolute
cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute
risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based
on published estimates for the overall
risks of
breast and ovarian
cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute
risk estimates that would be required in a genetic
counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend
on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.
More than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services are focused
on prevention: every year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide family planning
counseling and birth control to 2.2 million women and men, more than 1.1 million pregnancy tests, 770,000 Pap tests, identifying about 94,000 women at
risk of developing cervical
cancer, nearly 750,000 lifesaving
breast exams, more than four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections including HIV, nearly 1.5 million emergency contraception kits, and education programs to nearly 1.1 million people.