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Intervention Studies That Use Cancer Patients from High-Risk Clinics May Be Subject to Bias
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Many studies have tried to evaluate the effects of interventions to reduce
cancer risk, such as tamoxifen therapy or prophylactic surgery, among patients
that carry a mutation that increases their risk of cancer. However, some of
the studies that use subjects from clinics that care for