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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool Author: OncoLink Team Affiliations: University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Posted Date: December 13, 1998 Last Revision Date: Sunday, 14-Feb-1999 13:54:26 EST Copyright © 1994-1999, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Biostatistics Center have developed this Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, a computer program that allows you to project a woman's individualized estimate of risk for invasive breast cancer over a 5-year period and over her lifetime (to age 90). To run this program, you must download it to your computer. (Minimum requirements: Windows 3.1 or later, 486 or higher processer, 33 MHz, 4MB RAM.) Please read the directions below and then click on the "Setup.exe" link to begin the process. Directions Click on the "Setup.exe" link below. Your browser will prompt you to save the file. Choose a location on your computer to download the file to, and make a note of it. Quit your web browser and any other programs you have open. Open the folder that contains the "Setup.exe" file, and double-click on the icon. Follow the on-screen directions for installing the program. When the installation is complete and the new window appears called Breast Cancer Risk Assessment, it should display two items: the tool itself, and the utility that will remove the program and it's associated files if you should ever wish to do so. The Setup program may still be in the background at this point; click "Finish" to close it, and click on the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool to begin! Setup.exe (1 MB; 2.34 MB after installation)

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