Handbook of Cancer Risk Assessment and Prevention Author(s): Graham A. Colditz MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School & Cynthia J. Stein MD, Harvard Medical School Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers Over 50 percent of all cancers in the U.S. could be prevented.

The Handbook of Cancer Risk-Assessment and Prevention is a practical guide for health care providers that can help make this a reality. Its pages are filled with information to help you reach your patients with up-to-date, engaging messages about how they can lower their cancer risk. Written for health care providers at all levels, this handbook covers in depth fourteen of the most common cancers in the U.S. — providing for each a scientific summary of risk factors, a risk assessment tool for patients, and helpful hints to promote risk-reducing lifestyle changes. Additional sections focus specifically on five key lifestyle behaviors that lower not only the risk of cancer but also the risk of other chronic diseases. Integrated in this reference is an interactive risk assessment questionnaire for use at point-of-care. This questionnaire will aid in interviewing patients about their potential risk then display their score and offer recommendations.