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(Figure 1) The curve can be used by doctors and dentists to compare the risk levels of two or more OL/OLM patients. Generally, an increasingly lower likelihood of developing cancer is expected for the duration where the risk probabilities range from 0.5 (the dashed blue line) to 1.0. In the graph, the predicted cancer risk level for patient A is lower than patients B and C. Patient C has the highest risk of cancer occurrence and will require very close monitoring following cancer-preventive surgery.

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