Your Lifetime Risk Score is the foundation of your Catch journey. It powers your personalized, annual screening plan, your recommended actions, and the ongoing insights and cutting edge research you’ll access throughout your membership. Our models are built and continually refined by a team of clinical experts, with a backbone of thousands of peer-reviewed studies and the largest cancer patient data sets in the world - all to ensure your scores are grounded in the best available science.
Here's how it works:
1. We map your Risk Assessment against hundreds of risk factors
Your first step as a member is completing the initial Risk Assessment. Our clinicians and data scientists designed it to capture hundreds of data points about your diet, lifestyle, environment, medical history, and biomarkers. Each data point is matched against a rigorously validated database of risk factors. Every factor we use has been vetted through thousands of peer-reviewed studies and confirmed by our own research.
2. We calculate how each factor impacts your cancer risk
Not all risk factors carry the same weight, or affect each cancer equally. Our experts have analyzed decades of longitudinal data from over 500,000 patients to quantify how each factor shifts risk. These calculations are run hundreds of times across multiple cancer types to produce a nuanced picture of your individual risk profile.
3. We project your cancer risk across your lifetime
Cancer risk evolves with age. Using population-level data from the National Cancer Institute’s SEER program, our clinical team applies your unique risk factors to a lifetime curve — showing not just where you stand today, but how your risk changes over time.
4. We compare your cancer risk to the population average
Your scores are always contextualized. Our models benchmark you against people of your age and gender, translating abstract data into clear, actionable insights.
5. We calculate the impact of modifying your risk factors on reducing your cancer risk
The last step in calculating your risk scores is to analyze how much they can change through lifestyle modifications. Our team models how evidence-based lifestyle changes can shift your risk curve. Even small adjustments (an extra serving of vegetables, an increase in physical activity) are calculated for their measurable impact, feeding directly into your personalized prevention plan.
Catch is the first platform to quantify your lifetime cancer risk and turn it into an actionable, personalized prevention strategy. It’s the result of thousands of hours of clinical effort, relentless scientific review, and a mission-driven belief: prevention is possible, and science gives us the tools to achieve it.
At Catch, we’re not just measuring risk. We’re helping you take control of it — with the confidence of knowing every recommendation is grounded in the best available science and guided by experts who’ve devoted their lives to preventing cancer.
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