The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool allows health professionals to estimate a woman’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer over the next 5 years and up to age 90 (lifetime risk).
The tool uses a woman’s personal medical and reproductive history and the history of breast cancerThe canceramong her fi rst-degree relatives (mother, sisters, daughters) to estimate absolute breast cancer risk—heramong herchance or probability of developing invasive breast cancer in a defi ned age interval.
