Cancer Risk Prediction and Assessment
- Overview
- Risk Prediction Models
- Other Research Resources
- Funded Projects
- Funding Opportunities
- Public Resources
- Key Publications
- Workshops
- Contacts
Overview
Accurately assessing cancer risk in average- and high-risk individuals and determining cancer prognosis in patients are crucial to controlling the suffering and death due to cancer. Cancer prediction models provide an important approach to assessing risk and prognosis by identifying individuals at high risk, facilitating the design and planning of clinical cancer trials, fostering the development of benefit-risk indices, and enabling estimates of the population burden and cost of cancer. Models also may aid in the evaluation of treatments and interventions.
Risk Prediction Models
The following risk prediction models are grouped by cancer site and whether their methodology and results have been peer-reviewed.
Risk Prediction Models in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Lung cancer
- Melanoma
- Other cancers or multiple sites
- Ovarian cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Testicular cancer
Other Online Risk Prediction Models
- Breast Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
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Multiple Sites
- Cancerfacts.com-NexProfiler Tool
- Central PA Oncology Group Risk Assessment Questionnaire
- Health 24 Cancer Risk Calculator
- MyGenerations by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Center for Medical Genetics
- Siteman Cancer Center Tool
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Web site
- Women's Cancer Network Cancer Risk Assessment Survey
- Cancerfacts.com-NexProfiler Tool
Note: NCI and EGRP are not responsible for the content of external Web sites. Read our disclaimer for more information.
Other Research Resources
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The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)
CISNET is a consortium of NCI-sponsored investigators that use statistical modeling to improve our understanding of cancer control interventions in prevention, screening, and treatment and their effects on population trends in incidence and mortality.
Funded Projects
Funding Opportunities
NCI-sponsored Funding Opportunity Announcements related to cancer risk prediction and assessment include:
- Development, Application, and Evaluation of Prediction Models for Cancer Risk and Prognosis - expires January 8, 2013 unless reissued
EGRP joins with other NCI Divisions, Offices, and Centers and other Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund grant applications submitted in response to FOAs. View the full list of EGRP FOAs.
EGRP also encourages investigator-initiated grant applications on cancer risk prediction and assessment topics.
Public Resources
- Cancer Risk: Understanding the Puzzle
Interactive Web site to help the general public understand how to lower risk for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, prostate, and skin cancers.
Key Publications
- Published articles related to the development, evaluation and applications issues of cancer risk models
- Risk Communication Bibliography
An introduction to the risk communication literature from 1999 through the spring of 2006.
Workshops
Contacts
For general questions about cancer risk prediction models and assessment, EGRP contacts include:
- Andrew N. Freedman, Ph.D., Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch
