Xin Yang
xinyang6699.bsky.social
Xin Yang
@xinyang6699.bsky.social
Reposted by Xin Yang
📣CanRisk v.3 for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction released today

www.canrisk.org

Includes

1️⃣ Adaptations to the U.K. ethnically diverse population:

Pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

2️⃣ Continuous measures of mammographic density:

Pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
February 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Xin Yang
Great to see our study looking at the contributions of different data types to short-term risk prediction for colorectal cancer diagnosis published bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Key finding: primary care records (especially common blood tests) and genetics make a substantial contribution.
Genetics, primary care records and lifestyle factors for short-term dynamic risk prediction of colorectal cancer: prospective study of asymptomatic and symptomatic UK Biobank participants
Objectives To quantify the contributions of polygenic scores, primary care records (presenting symptoms, medical history and common blood tests) and lifestyle factors, for short-term risk prediction o...
bmjoncology.bmj.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Xin Yang
📣 Exciting new opportunity to join the Cancer Data-Driven Detection (CD3) program as Senior Research Programme Manager based at @dphpc.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Closing date 16 March 2025

Please repost!

More about CD3 below. 👇

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50376/
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Latest study on evaluating the multifactorial BOADICEA model, implemented in CanRisk (www.canrisk.org), for predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in the prospective #UKBiobank cohort, from our @antonis02.bsky.social group, published in JNCI
doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
@crukcamcentre.bsky.social
Evaluating the performance of the BOADICEA model in predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in UK Biobank
AbstractBackground. The BOADICEA model predicts breast cancer risk using cancer family history, epidemiological and genetic data. We evaluated its validity
doi.org
December 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM