title: An Evaluation of Multiple Behavioral Risk Factors for Cancer in a Working Class, Multi-Ethnic Population.
abstract: Behavioral risk factors for cancer tend to cluster within individuals, which can compound risk beyond that associated with the individual risk factors alone. There has been increasing attention paid to the prevalence of multiple risk factors (MRF) for cancer, and to the importance of designing interventions that help individuals reduce their risks across multiple behaviors simultaneously. The purpose of this paper is to develop methodology to identify an optimal linear combination of multiple risk factors (score function) which would facilitate evaluation of cancer interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine SUNY, Stony Brook University HSC Level 3, Rm 074 Stony Brook, NY 11794-8338  melody.goodman@stonybrook.edu.
authors.forename: Melody S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Gary G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Stoddard
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Emmons