Tyrer-Cuzick Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

Staying Ahead of Breast Cancer

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Many women are at higher risk of developing breast cancer, but don’t even know it. We’re committed to early cancer detection, and risk
assessment can help identify high-risk women before cancer develops. That’s why we’ve implemented a new risk assessment program to personalize breast care for our patients.

Here’s what you need to know:
  • Breast cancer risk involves a combination of factors: personal health history, lifestyle, environment and genetics.
  • All of these combine to create your individual risk for breast cancer.
  • The questionnaire for breast screening using this model looks a little different – and is a bit more detailed.
Why is this important?

Our breast cancer risk assessment will help determine your lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. Armed with this information, you and your healthcare provider can develop an individualized care plan for screening for breast cancer.

Steps in a Risk Assessment:
  1. Call or click here to schedule your annual screening mammogram at one of our nine convenient clinics, or on the Mobile Mammography Coach.
  2. Once you’ve scheduled your appointment, you will be sent a text message to complete your breast risk assessment questionnaire on your Patient Portal.
 

Most of the questions will be familiar to you, but some will be new. For family history questions, you may need to ask family member(s) on both your mother’s and father’s side who have had cancer to indicate the type of cancer and their age when they were diagnosed.

If you’ve already scheduled your upcoming appointment, login to your Patient Portal, choose “Appointments” on the left side of your dashboard, then click on “forms” under the actions column.  This will allow you to fill out all of your visit forms before your appointment. The questionnaire can also be completed once you’ve arrived at the clinic for your appointment.

If you have questions about our new risk assessment tool – please talk to your technologist during your exam.