Legal Liability and the Uncertain Nature of Risk Prediction: The Case of Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Models | Zendy

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Legal Liability and the Uncertain Nature of Risk Prediction: The Case of Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Models

Author(s) -

Lee Black,

Bartha Maria Knoppers,

Denise Avard,

Jacques Simard

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

public health genomics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1662-8063

pISSN - 1662-4246

DOI - 10.1159/000342138

Subject(s) - breast cancer , liability , actuarial science , risk assessment , medicine , predictive modelling , risk analysis (engineering) , cancer , business , computer science , machine learning , finance , computer security

The rapidity of technological change in genetics is not always matched by the uptake of this new knowledge into practice. Increasing genetic knowledge has already led to legal liability for those who have not used it properly, such as not informing patients or their families of potential genetic risk. A similar outcome is also of concern in the case of risk prediction models used for hereditary breast cancer.

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