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Awareness, Prevention, and Early Detection
Most men and women can lower their cancer risk by choosing to live a healthy lifestyle and by working with their doctor so that if they do develop cancer, it is found early.
Cancer Risk Assessments
What is your risk of getting cancer? Tools are available to help you estimate your cancer risk. These tools will not tell you if you will get cancer. They will only estimate your risk.
- Calculate your Breast Cancer risk
For women 35-84 years of age.
- The Harvard School of Public Health
Cancer risk assessments, including breast, prostate, lung, colon, bladder, melanoma, uterine, kidney, pancreatic, ovarian, stomach and cervical cancer.
- Cancer Prevention: What You Need To Know (Heredity and Cancer)
- Genetic Testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2: It's Your Choice
- Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Early Detection
Regular screening and self exams are important tools in the fight against cancer.
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For additional information, contact the Cancer Information Service
Available Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (CT)
1-800-237-1225 or 319-356-3000
cancer-information@uiowa.edu
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