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The site began in 1998 as a pen and paper questionnaire called the Harvard Cancer Risk Index. [2] In January 2000, The Harvard Cancer Risk Index developed into an online assessment and was renamed Your Cancer Risk, and offered assessments for four cancers: breast, colon, lung, and prostate. Six months later, eight additional cancers were added. [3]
NUT carcinoma (NC; formerly NUT midline carcinoma (NMC)) is a rare genetically defined, very aggressive squamous cell epithelial cancer that usually arises in the midline of the body and is characterized by a chromosomal rearrangement in the nuclear protein in testis gene (i.e. NUTM1 gene). [2]
Cancer slope factors (CSF) are used to estimate the risk of cancer associated with exposure to a carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic substance. A slope factor is an upper bound, approximating a 95% confidence limit , on the increased cancer risk from a lifetime exposure to an agent by ingestion or inhalation .
The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT), also known as the Gail Model, is one of the most common and popular tests used to identify those women at risk for breast cancer, says Sherry Ross ...
The report, published Monday in Nature Medicine, revealed a previously unknown risk from excessive amounts of the vitamin, which is found in many foods, including meat, fish, nuts, and fortified ...
“Ask your doctor to calculate your Breast Cancer Assessment Score,” Munn said. “Dr. Aliabadi says that if the number is greater than 20%, you need annual mammograms and breast MRIs starting ...
Eating nuts several times a week reduces the risk of heart attack by up to 50%. Eating whole meal bread instead of white bread reduced non-fatal heart attack risk by 45%. Drinking 5 or more glasses of water a day may reduce heart disease by 50%. Men who had a high consumption of tomatoes reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 40%.
For a physician, this score is helpful in deciding how aggressively to treat a condition. For example, a patient may have cancer with comorbid heart disease and diabetes. These comorbidities may be so severe that the costs and risks of cancer treatment would outweigh its short-term benefit.