Risk Estimate - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Risk Estimate;

NCIt related terms : absolute risk;

NCIt definition : Methods to predict the degree of health risk arising from a specific health hazard.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A measure of the risk of a certain event happening. In cancer research, it is the likelihood that a person who is free of a specific type of cancer at a given age will develop that cancer over a certain period of time. For example, a woman 35 years of age, with no known risk factors for breast cancer, has an absolute risk of getting breast cancer over a lifetime of 90 years of about 13.5%, meaning one out of every seven women will develop breast cancer.;

NCIt note : Compare with 'Risk';

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000666196;

Details

Origin ID

C19015;

UMLS CUI

C1519101;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- risk assessment [MeSH Descriptor]
- risk estimation [IUPAC Term]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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