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2. Cancer slope factor - Wikipedia

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   Cancer slope factors (CSF) are used to estimate the risk of cancer associated with exposure to a carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic substance. A slope factor is an upper bound, approximating a 95% confidence limit , on the increased cancer risk from a lifetime exposure to an agent by ingestion or inhalation .

3. What is the breast cancer risk calculator recommended by ...

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   The result is a lifetime risk and a five-year risk based on factors that have been tied to a higher risk of breast cancer. For comparison, it also gives an average risk for U.S. women of the same ...

4. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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   In the United States there has been an increase in the 5-year relative survival rate between people diagnosed with cancer in 1975-1977 (48.9%) and people diagnosed with cancer in 2007-2013 (69.2%); these figures coincide with a 20% decrease in cancer mortality from 1950 to 2014. [8] Due to innovation in emerging treatments and cancer prevention ...

5. Cancer experts share 8 simple ways they reduce their own ...

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   Wear sunscreen. It may seem obvious, but sun protection is one of the easiest things you can do to dramatically reduce your risk for skin cancer, the experts say. "It is super important to use ...

6. Ovarian cancer - Wikipedia

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   Women with ovarian or breast cancer in a pedigree chart of a family. A family history of ovarian cancer is a risk factor for ovarian cancer. Women with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (Lynch syndrome), and those with BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genetic abnormalities are at increased risk.

7. Cancer rates in millennials, Gen X-ers have risen starkly in ...

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   Only about 350 out of every 100,000 cases of cancer diagnosed each year are found in people between ages 45 and 49, according to the National Cancer Institute. “It’s not something that people ...

8. Radiation hormesis - Wikipedia

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   Radiation hormesis. Alternative assumptions for the extrapolation of the cancer risk vs. radiation dose to low-dose levels, given a known risk at a high dose: supra-linearity (A), linear (B), linear-quadratic (C) and hormesis (D). Radiation hormesis is the hypothesis that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the region of and just above ...

9. Why does cancer risk skyrocket as we age? How ... - AOL

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   It’s part of the body’s immune response, and the reason we don’t die every time we get an infection. “In a healthy situation, your immune system fights off the infection, eliminates the ...