Lifetime Risk of Cancer
Statistical models are used to compute the probability of developing or dying of cancer from birth or conditional on a certain age. The development of this statistical methodology is described in the following reports:
- Lifetime Risk of Developing Breast Cancer
- Estimating Lifetime and Age Conditional Probabilities of Developing Cancer
Interactive Tools for Accessing Precalculated Lifetime Risk Statistics
Know Your Chances website presents interactive risk charts to put chances of dying from cancer and other diseases in context.
SEER*Explorer is an interactive website that provides easy access to a wide range of SEER cancer statistics. It provides detailed statistics for a cancer site by sex, race, calendar year, age, and for a selected number of cancer sites, by stage and histology.
DevCan - Probability of Developing or Dying of Cancer provides PC-based statistical software and datasets to calculate the lifetime risks statistics.