Tool helps assess risk for second breast cancer

besa

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-tool-breast...

"Statisticians at The University of Texas at Dallas have developed an online tool to help breast cancer patients assess their risk of getting a second breast cancer, providing additional guidance for patients and their doctors in the timely management of the disease."

brigid_TO

Link to actual online tool:

Contralateral Breast Cancer (CBC) Risk Predictor

ksusan

Thanks for the link. It seems actually to be more specific than the "second breast cancer" title. It's a contralateral breast cancer predictor, which means it intends to predict the likelihood of cancer in the other breast. This is different from post-treatment risk. For what it's worth, it shows me with only a tiny chance of contralateral cancer. However, I had contralateral cancer on diagnosis.