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The term "risk" appears in the title of more than 10,000 medical articles published in 2004 (2 percent of the total) — nine times as many as appeared in 1975. In this issue of the Journal, the article by Hartmann et al. on benign breast disease and the risk of breast cancer¹ continues the trend, as does this editorial. Hartmann et al. studied a cohort of women who had a benign breast lesion and found that the histologic appearance of the initial biopsy specimen was associated with the risk of breast cancer. As compared with women in the general population, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle (J.G.E.); and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (G.G.).

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