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To the Editor: Phillips et al. (Jan. 14 issue)¹ are to be commended for their lucid deconstruction of the "one in nine" statistic, a figure seized on by the lay and medical media and one that has aroused concern that we are facing an unprecedented increase in breast cancer since it was first reported. However, missing from their discussion is any acknowledgment that life-table analysis of risk, such as that presented in Table 1 and Figure 1 of their article, applies only to the population from which the data were collected.

To the extent that breast cancer and cardiovascular disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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