Cancer Risk Calculator User Reviews

Cancer Risk Calculator

Timo Du Four

Medical

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Can’t use on iPhone

Several pop-up menus are truncated by edge of screen (iPhone 15 plus), so is unusable.

Rpgustavson

3 months ago

Great information, worth giving a try!

Easy to input information and very user friendly. Very interesting to see the results! Definitely gives some great recommendations on how to improve lifestyle to lower cancer risks. Thank you for this great app!

CristalCeeeP

3 years ago

A great idea that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny

I found this app when the developer posted it in the /medicine subreddit on Reddit. It got thoroughly panned there by other docs for the methodology used, which seems to give quite inaccurate results. Still, I tried it out myself. I was surprised to see my breast cancer risk as lower than the general population, since I have several family members with histories of breast cancer. Same for cervical cancer, which I should be at higher risk for, given my HPV+ status and history of cervical dysplasia. Then I realized the app did not ask for HPV status or results of Pap smear tests - seems odd to offer a risk analysis of cervical cancer and not include those. Overall, just doesn’t seem trustworthy. I would not encourage anyone to make healthcare decisions based on this app.

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Miss Fussypants

4 years ago

App bad per doctors on Reddit

All thought it was very inaccurate. Reviews this year there so bad, the mods of r/medicine took the post down so that the link could not be used.
Ask your doctors about your cancer risks, that’s what you pay them for.
Wish I could give zero stars

BlindedMeWithScience

4 years ago

Ease my mind

Love this app. Its easy for me to worry too much about this stuff but this puts me at ease. I will continue to go to checkups of course but this was really cool!

Madeline Cox

5 years ago

Excellent!

Informative tool for helping to understand and increase awareness of one’s personal cancer risk. Highly recommended!

corar89

5 years ago

Amazing

This is one of the most informative and easy-to-use apps I’ve ever used. The information provided on risk factors is easily digestible. The way it is designed for you to check off risk factors is easy to use and thorough.

~Isabel

5 years ago

Terrible

Totally inaccurate, uses fear mongering and has no merit. Don’t waste your time

Claw624

5 years ago

Great for nurses and other overthinkers

Now when we think “Hey, this hurts, it’s probably cancer” we can quantify it with an actual percentage! Really excellent source of information/motivation.

cmoe25027

5 years ago

Questionable utility?

People, just go see your doctor. An app with data this sparse and analysis this shallow isn’t going to help you identify your cancer risk, nor will it provide meaningful insight into lifestyle changes.

Thanks for clarifying the relationship with Google/Admob. It seems reasonably clear that your personal health data remains on the device.

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Isaac Gray

6 years ago

Response from developer

We developed this app to just give users an indication of their cancer risk compared to the average population risk. This is based on a significant amount of scientific studies, but it will always be an estimation. But we do advice people (this is also mentioned in the app) to still consult a doctor when you want a more detailed analysis. As mentioned in the privacy policy, we only store the data on your device, not in the cloud. The only data shared with Google and AdMob is that you as a user have downloaded an are using a medical app. They use this information to tailor the ads to show you. Privacy is very important to me, so I really monitored this. But since we are a software developer and a doctor, our legal jargon could be lacking to make this clear in the privacy policy. If you have any suggestions on how to change the wording in our policy to avoid confusion in the future, you may contact us and we will gladly change it.