Welcome to the QCancer^® risk calculator

Welcome to the QCancer^® Web Calculator.

This website is primarily intended for doctors and nurses working in general practice and for academics who are interest in the underlying research. Patients are welcome to read this information and use the calculator together with their doctor so that any symptoms or concerns can be addressed within a health care setting. All medical decisions need to be taken by a patient in consultation with their doctor. The authors and the sponsors accept no responsibility for clinical use or misuse of this score.

QCancer works out the risk of a patient having a current but as yet undiagnosed cancer taking account of their risk factors and current symptoms. It does not give a diagnosis cancer, but a risk.

The QCancer^® algorithms have been developed by Julia Hippisley-Cox and Carol Coupland and are based on routinely collected data from many thousands of GPs across the country who have freely contributed data to the QResearch database for medical research.

QCancer^® has been developed for the UK population, and is intended for use in the UK.

The science underpinning the QCancer^® equations was published in the January 2013 edition of the BJGP.