# FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered

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## TL;DR

FORCE gives free information, a helpline and peer navigators to anyone facing an inherited cancer risk such as a BRCA or Lynch syndrome gene change.

## Summary

FORCE is the largest US organisation for people affected by hereditary cancer. Its peer navigation programme matches people with a trained volunteer who has faced the same gene change and decisions; its helpline and expert-reviewed pages explain testing, surveillance, risk-reducing surgery and trials in plain language; and it runs support groups and an annual conference. Services are free and open to anyone, and its content is used internationally.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Tags: free; patient-org
- URL: https://www.facingourrisk.org/
- Holds: Free helpline, peer navigation, expert-reviewed information and support groups for people with hereditary cancer risk (BRCA, Lynch syndrome and other inherited syndromes), including help understanding test results and options.

## Sources

- FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered: https://www.facingourrisk.org/

## Connected records

- collections: [Sharsheret](https://onco.cc/collections/sharsheret/)
- technologies: [Germline (hereditary) testing](https://onco.cc/technologies/germline-testing/)
- targets: [BRCA1 / BRCA2 (HRD)](https://onco.cc/targets/brca/)
- terms: [Hereditary cancer syndromes](https://onco.cc/terms/hereditary-cancer-syndromes/), [Lynch syndrome](https://onco.cc/terms/lynch-syndrome/)

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