What is CanRisk?
CanRisk is an online tool that enables healthcare professionals to calculate an individual's future risks of developing breast, ovarian or prostate cancer using cancer family history, genetic and other risk factors. CanRisk also calculates mutation carrier probabilities in breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes.
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Who is CanRisk for?
CanRisk is designed for use by healthcare professionals to help them communicate and discuss breast, ovarian and prostate cancer risk with their patients.
What does CanRisk do?
CanRisk calculates breast and ovarian cancer risks (using the BOADICEA models) and prostate cancer risk (using CanRisk-Prostate) based on information entered for the individual which can include personal risk factors, cancer family history, genetic testing for high- and moderate-risk genes, polygenic scores and mammographic density (click to see what information is used). It presents the cancer risks in textual and graphical formats to assist the communication of the results.