What it comes down to is that the risk of developing cancer depends on:
• who you are (genetic makeup);
• where you live (environmental and occupational exposures to carcinogens); and
• how you live (personal lifestyle).
Now that so many factors in our daily lives that affect the risk of getting cancer can be identified, cancer risk assessment has become increasingly vital to our continued good health. Risk assessment screening of apparently healthy people is now used in many cancer centers. ( See Investigational Anticancer Drugs .)
