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Thursday, December 17, 2015

NCI’s New Tool Puts Cancer Risk in Context



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Type “cancer risk assessment” into Google, and you’ll come up with a list of assessment tools for particular cancers, most with a strong focus on personal risk factors related to lifestyle, exposures, and medical and family history.
Would it help also to get a broader view of cancer risk? The National Cancer Institute thinks so. NCI has teamed with Dartmouth researchers Steven Woloshin, M.D., and Lisa Schwartz, M.D., to create “Know Your Chances” (http://knowyourchances.cancer.gov/), a website that aims to put cancer risk in perspective.....



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