Slovenian IBIS (S-IBIS) is specifically designed to calculate the individual risk of breast cancer in Slovenian women. It is an adjustment of the IBIS software, where Slovenian generation specific population breast cancer risks are applied. S-IBIS is ready for use in the Slovene health system and allows an evidence-based assignment of an asymptomatic individual to a group of general, moderate and high breast cancer risk. As a cut-off for the moderate risk group the S-IBIS life-time risk of 16 percent or more is suggested for a Slovene women at age 25. The cut-offs for ten-years risk are offered as well. Compared with today's system, where the Terms of the health prevention at the primary health care level classifies breast cancer high risk women applying vary subjective qualitative criteria, it is today already possible to classify asymptomatic Slovenian women to a group of general, moderate and high breast cancer risk on the basis of individual numerical criteria using S-IBIS software. Pilot testing of the S-IBIS in the national Breast Cancer Centers shows encouraging results - we believe that the implementation of S-IBIS in the Slovenian healthcare system could reduce the number of unnecessary preventive interventions, while also reducing the waiting time for justified preventive examinations of moderate and high risk women.
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