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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Macro

BrCa_RAM is a SAS macro that allows the user to project absolute invasive breast cancer risk according to NCI’s Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT) algorithm in the batch mode. Risk factor data and projection interval ages can be entered for a group of women, and corresponding absolute risk projections will be returned. This program may be useful for research purposes when one needs risk projections for an entire study population. Latest Update (August 2011): Includes projections for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Publications:

  • Costantino J, Gial MH, Pee D, Anderson S, Redmond CK, Benichou J, Wieand HS. Validation studies for models to project the risk of invasive and total breast cancer. JNCI 1999; 91:1541-8.
  • Gail MH, Costantino JP, Pee D, Bondy M, Newman L, Selvan M, Anderson GL, Malone KE, Marchbanks PA, McCaskill-Stevens W, Norman SA, Simon MS, Spirtas R, Ursin G, Berstein L. Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in African American women. JNCI 2007; 99:1782-92.
  • Matsuno RK, Costantino JP, Ziegler RG, Anderson GL, Li H, Pee D, Gail MH. Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in asian and pacific islander american women. JNCI 2011; 103:951-61.