How Catch Assesses Cancer Risk

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a Catch Membership include?

For less than $9 / month, Catch leverages the latest clinical data and powerful biostatistical models to help you understand your personal risk for 21 top cancers and take steps to reduce it.

Membership benefits include:

Our full Risk Assessment covering 500+ risk factors across 21 cancers
A comprehensive Action Plan with targeted interventions to reduce your risk
Your personalized Screening Protocol for early detection based on your unique risk profile
Member-only Updates summarizing the latest cutting-edge research

What cancers are included in my Risk Assessment?

Catch assesses your risk for the 21 most common cancers, which account for 97% of cancer incidence and 95% of deaths from cancer:

Colorectal cancer
Lung cancer
Breast cancer
Prostate cancer
Uterine cancer
Melanoma
Bladder cancer
Lymphoma
Kidney cancer
Leukemia
Thyroid cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Oral cavity cancer
Ovarian cancer
Liver cancer
Cervical cancer
Myeloma
Brain cancer
Stomach cancer
Testicular cancer
Esophageal cancer

How does Catch determine my personalized lifetime cancer risk?

Nearly half of Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime, but cancer risk varies widely from person to person based on 500+ known risk factors. Catch uses biostatistical modeling and powerful machine learning to calculate your personalized risk for 21 top cancers based on a proprietary Risk Assessment built on the largest longitudinal cancer data set in the world.

How many risk factors does Catch analyze?

Catch is the first risk model capable of analyzing an individual's lifetime cancer risk across 500 unique risk factors spanning lifestyle, environmental, and genetic risks , all of which are clinically proven to impact your likelihood of developing one or more cancers. With Catch, you can understand how factors like your medical history, diet and lifestyle choices, occupational risks, genetics, and biomarkers impact your likelihood of developing cancer - and what you can do to prevent it.

How does Catch reduce my cancer risk?

First, Catch provides a personalized Action Plan addressing the top factors that produce your risk. As you complete steps, your Action Plan will automatically update with your next optimal action to reduce your risk. Average Catch members can reduce their cancer risk by up to 60% by making small, meaningful changes in their daily lifestyle.

Secondly, Catch generates a personalized annual Testing Plan optimized to your risk for each major cancer. Your protocol will tell you which cancer screens you should do each year based on your actual risk, not generic guidelines. As your risk evolves over time, your annual Testing Plan will adapt each year to your changing risk factors.

How is my Catch annual Testing Plan different from the cancer screening guidelines at the doctor’s office?

Conventional cancer screening guidelines are based on one factor: your age. With Catch, your annual Testing Plan is personalized based on your unique risk for 21 top cancers, taking into account over 500 risk factors. Your Testing Plan will tell you the optimal tests to do, when to do them, and why.

Is cancer actually preventable?

Yes! Only 10-20% of cancer risk factors are genetic and over 60% of cancer risk is modifiable. The key is that cancer risk factors accumulate over time, so the sooner you can make lifestyle changes, the greater the impact they will have on your lifetime risk. Similarly, most Americans start screening for cancer too late (or not at all). By beginning a proactive annual Testing Plan that is personalized to your unique risk of each type of cancer, you can increase the odds that if you ever did get cancer, it would be caught early when the survival rate for most cancers is over 90%.

Why is early detection so important for cancer?

Early detection saves lives - over 90% of stage 1 cancers are survivable but the five-year survival of most stage 4 cancers is less than 10%.

Unfortunately, conventional cancer screening guidelines start too late and are based on the assumption that every person has “average” risk for their age. Catch is the world’s first platform to provide a personalized annual Testing Plan for every major cancer based on your actual risk level, calculated based on over 500 cancer risk factors.

By screening early based on your true risk, you can ensure that if you were to get cancer, it would be caught early when the survival rate is over 90%.

Why is Catch an annual membership?

Catch is a membership because reducing your cancer risk isn’t a one-time event. Cancer risk factors accumulate over time and cancer can strike at any stage in life (with many early onset cancers on the rise in recent decades). The key to reducing your risk is to address your modifiable risk factors proactively over time and get screened based on your evolving risk level year-in and year-out. Catch membership ensures you will do both with a personalized program that costs less than $9 per month.

As a Catch member, you will:

Track your progress over time: Your risk estimates and Action Plan update as you make lifestyle changes, add health information, and as new research emerges.‍
Get a new optimal Testing Plan each year: Your personalized screening recommendations adjust annually based on your latest risk estimate and age, helping you stay proactive.
‍Ensure you have the most current insights: Science evolves, and we make sure you always have access to the latest, expert-backed guidance for reducing your risk.

What types of recommendations are included in my Action Plan?

Your Action Plan targets recommendations across environmental, diet, and lifestyle interventions designed to help you make the biggest impact in your cancer risk with achievable lifestyle changes. Recommended actions may include anything from decreasing your processed meat intake to introducing anti-cancer foods into your diet to getting your home tested for radon.

Each recommendation is personalized to reduce your total lifetime cancer risk and also specific by-cancer risk. You have the power to select the actions to prioritize first based on your cancer concerns and lifestyle goals.

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