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Cancer Predictor: A Simple Means of Assessing your Chances of Cancer
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author: Sankarshan Acharya
date: 8/12/2016


Why do we need the app?
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There are several reasons:

- There is increase in the types of cancer out there
- People are more likely than before to get cancer (unnatural toxins, trace radioactivity, and so on)
- In America, there is a rising epidemic of obesity (which is linked to cancer) 
- The link for viewing obesity to cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet

Code for the App
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```{r}
CancerRisk <- function(bodymassindex) (bodymassindex - 18)/17
CancerRisk(25)
```

The code for the app is simple; you simply have to calculate your BMI.
And with the function above, you can estimate the probability of you getting cancer.
The above example is shown with a BMI of 25 - what is considered to be borderline overweight. 

How useful is it?
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- This app is a rudimentary attempt to calculate the probability of cancer
- Cancer problems can occur at any time and therefore it is useful to calculate the probability


The Super Short Summary
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- In conclusion, this app will be a great step in making cancer diagnostics convienient and cheap
- With this app, people will become more informed of their risks and thus more able to make rational
decisions about them