By completing a Cancer Risk Evaluation with CFA, you can find out whether you are currently exposing yourself to a cancer risk or were exposed in the past. If a risk factor is identified, you can also find out which specific type of cancer that risk is associated with and what you can do now to increase your odds of staying or becoming cancer free.

If you prefer to do your own cancer risk evaluation, use the data on this website under the heading Basic CFA Database Information. By checking your workplaces, environments, and behaviors you will be able to identify carcinogenic exposures associated with those situations and the cancer types you may be at an increased risk of developing related to those exposures.

If you are currently cancer free and the exposures occurred in the past, you can learn about appropriate screening to find cancer, if it were to develop, at an early stage when it is most easily treated. If the carcinogenic exposures are continuing, you can learn how to reduce or eliminate them.

If you have already been diagnosed with cancer, this evaluation is still very important. Continued exposures to a carcinogen while being treated for cancer could lead to an increase in the risk of cancer progression and a decrease in the effectiveness of your treatment.

Awareness of known cancer risks is the first step in preventing cancer and being cancer free. It is a basic public health principle of fighting any disease – identify the risk factors, decrease or eliminate them, and thereby decrease or eliminate the probability of developing the disease. It is time to apply this basic principle toward the prevention of cancer.

LIVES CAN BE SAVED WITH CANCER RISK AWARENESS