Abstract:Background: Breast cancer is the second most common malignancy in female patients, thus becoming an important topic for public health. The current Gail model, already validated for other populations (e.g. White, African American, Native American, Asian), has been applied in other regions (e.g. Turkey, Qatar, Iran, Korea), however, without reflecting the ethnic diversity that the Brazilian population brings with it, through the intense miscegenation that occurred over centuries of civilization after the arrival… Show more
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