Your Disease Risk, located on Siteman Cancer Centers website, is an interactive quiz which roughly estimates your risk of cancer by asking specific questions about your lifestyle. These questions include gender, age, family history, eating and exercise habits, height/weight, and other activities such as smoking or drug use. Using these criteria, the Your Disease Risk website determines your risk for specific diseases such as various types of cancer, heart diseas, osteoporosis or stroke.Once on the website, the user can select a disease risk questionnaire for various types of cancers such as breast, cervical, pancreatic, prostate and stomach cancers.
It is not intended as medical advice, but cites prevention guidelines. These guidelines include recommendations for exercise, smoking cessation tips and healthy eating strategies. The questionnaire only takes a few minutes to complete, and a health risk bar graph is compiled from responses. The responses are grouped into risk categories: below average, average, and above average risk.
Give the quiz a try. It is worth knowing. I completed the pancreatic cancer quiz and it was determined that I have a below average risk for contracting pancreatic cancer.
Source: Siteman Cancer Center: Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine
http://www.yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu/hccpquiz.pl?lang=english&func=home&page=cancer_index
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