Predicting your risk of Breast Cancer

• The Gail model: This is a simple 8 question test devised by Dr Mitch Tail at the National Cancer Institute that estimates a woman's risk of breast cancer. This information may help a woman decide if taking a medication to reduce this risk is reasonable.
• Hereditary Breast Cancer-this is the web site of Myriad Genetics, the company that did much of the early work to discover two of the known genes that cause breast cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2. This is where I send the blood tests of women whose family history suggests that they might have this problem.