This week is Women’s Health Week so we thought we’d share this new online test that lets you find out your risk in just five minutes – no needles or tests involved.
Developed by Pink Hope and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Know Your Risk tool asks you a series of questions to estimate your risk including your age, height and weight, family history and contraceptive use – all based on clinical practice guidelines.
The tool also suggests next steps depending on what category of risk you are in – average, moderate or high.
Aussie women have a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer during their life – for ovarian cancer, it’s one in 81.
And as we covered here, the risk of cancer for women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations is lifelong – so it’s worth finding out what your risk is.
Pass it into your daughter, sister or friends too.
Take the test here.
