Free Cancer Risk Assessment

Cancer is mankinds most horrible and most spread disease and a quarter of the US population dies from cancer. Nearly everyone gets in contact with it sooner or later, either by family members, close relatives or themselves getting cancer diagnosed. Thats the bad news.

The good news is, cancer can be prevented in many cases by means of a healthy lifestyle and regular screening. It can be detected in early stages by modern diagnostic methods and the life expectancy with cancer is higher than ever before.

Do you know your individual risks?

Use this app to assess your personal cancer risks. Find individual risk factors that may threaten your health and life.

The 14 most common cancer types - accounting for about 80% of all incidents - are covered (see lists below) as well as 12 groups of cancers, ordered by location in the body. Fill out our questionaire and you will get

• A detailed assessment from over 100 risks.

• Statistics on your life expectancy.

• Probabilities of death and cancer.

• Indiviual cancer risk statistics and mortality rates.

This application is based on medical and scientists expert knowledge alike, official US statistics on cancer and population death rates (see credits below).

Risks on cancer types covered

• Prostate cancer

• Breast cancer

• Lung cancer

• Colon cancer

• Bladder cancer

• Endometrial cancer

• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

• Ovarian cancer

• Skin melanomas

• Kidney cancer

• Cervical cancer

• Leukemia

• Stomach cancer

• Pancreatic cancer

Cancer body locations covered

• Blood & Bone

• Brain & Eyes

• Breast

• Digestive Organs

• Secondary Digestives

• Endocrine System

• Female Genitals

• Male Genitals

• Mouth to Pharynx

• Respiratory System

• Skin & Soft Tissue

• Unrinary System

• Other

If you like this software, don't forget to rate, share and DONATE to a cancer society like one of the following institutions:

USA

American Cancer Society

American Cancer Foundation - National Children's Cancer Society

American Association for Cancer Research

Prevent Cancer Foundation

The UK

MacMillan Cancer Support

Cancer Research UK

Canada

Canadian Cancer Society

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Childhood Cancer Canada - Be a Hero

Australia

Cancer Australia

Cancer Council Australia

CREDITS

Thanks to anyone who contributed to make this work possible.

- National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program

- The US Census 2010

- The Harvard School Of Public Health Risk Index

- Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention Volume 4: Harvard Cancer Risk Index

G.A. Colditz *, K.A. Atwood, K. Emmons, R.R. Monson, W.C. Willett, D. Trichopoulos & D.J. Hunter for the Risk Index Working Group, Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention

Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

- Wikimedia Commons

- medicalgraphics.de for the imaging material

In memory of my mother.