Chemoprevention and medical practice The medical community can play an important part in cancer prevention by recognising the multistage nature of cancer development, making all patients aware of factors that increase cancer risk and ways to reduce risk, and identifying patients at high risk of cancer who might benefit from chemopreventive interventions. Primary care doctors should evaluate cancer risk even for people who seem healthy. A woman's risk of invasive breast cancer, for example, can be calculated by using the breast cancer assessment tool found at http://bcra.nci.nih.gov/brc/questions.htm Similar assessment tools are not yet available for other cancers, but risk factors for various cancers are outlined at www.cancer.org and provide some basis for assessing a patient's degree of risk for a particular cancer. Although this approach needs refinement, it allows doctors to develop an individual risk profile for cancer that may help guide preventive interventions, such as chemoprevention, and motivate patients to change their behaviour Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.