Breast Cancer Risk Assessment for Android

11 things about Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

1. The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is an interactive tool designed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) to estimate a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer.

2. * Although the tool has been used with success in clinics for women with strong family histories of breast cancer, more specific methods of estimating risk are appropriate for women known to have breast cancer-producing mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

3. * The tool should not be used to calculate breast cancer risk for women who have already had a diagnosis of breast cancer, lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

4. An interactive tool to help estimate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.

5. The tool's risk calculations assume that a woman is screened for breast cancer as in the general U.S. population.

6. * The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool was designed for use by health professionals.

7. If you are not a health professional, you are encouraged to discuss the results and your personal risk of breast cancer with your doctor.

8. These factors include previous radiation therapy to the chest for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma or recent migration from a region with low breast cancer rates, such as rural China.

9. A woman who does not have mammograms will have somewhat lower chances of a diagnosis of breast cancer.

10. The tool has been updated for African American women based on the Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (CARE) Study.

11. * Other factors may also affect risk and are not accounted for by the tool.