title: Molecular risk assessment
text: # Molecular risk assessment
  
  Molecular risk assessment is a procedure in which biomarkers (for example, biological molecules or changes in tumor cell DNA) are used to estimate a person's risk for developing cancer. Specific biomarkers may be linked to particular types of cancer.
  
  ## Sources
  
  This article incorporates public domain material from Dictionary of Cancer Terms. U.S. National Cancer Institute.
  
  