HIGH-RISK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-risk mean? 

• HIGH-RISK (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-RISK has 1 sense:

1. not financially safe or secure

  Familiarity information: HIGH-RISK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-RISK (adjective)

Comparative: higher-risk   
Superlative: highest-risk   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not financially safe or secure

Synonyms:

bad; high-risk; risky; speculative

Context example:

speculative business enterprises

Similar:

unsound (not sound financially)

 Context examples 

Scores of 0-6 are considered low-risk and scores greater than 6 are considered high-risk.

(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)

A regimen consisting of doxorubicin, bleomycin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone and cyclophosphamide, given in combination with radiation therapy and used for the treatment of high-risk, childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma.

(DBVE-PC regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Only high-risk patients have this type of surgery.

(Mastectomy, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A gene-hunting technique that traces patterns of disease in high-risk families.

(Genetic Linkage Analysis, NCI Dictionary)

Most high-risk HPV infections go away on their own without treatment, and do not cause cancer.

(high-risk HPV, NCI Dictionary)

A regimen consisting of ifosfamide and doxorubicin used for the treatment of high-risk childhood rhabdomyosarcoma.

(ID Rhabdomyosarcoma Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Most high-risk human papillomavirus infections go away on their own without treatment, and do not cause cancer.

(High-risk human papillomavirus, NCI Dictionary)

A regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, prednisone, and high-dose methotrexate used to treat aggressive forms of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; also used as primary treatment of AIDS-related and high-risk Burkitt's lymphoma.

(Magrath Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Programs or materials to provide information on cervical cancer prevention, detection, or treatment to health professionals, patients and their families, the public, or high-risk groups.

(Cervical Cancer Education, NCI Thesaurus)

The HPV test looks for DNA or RNA from certain high-risk types of HPV in samples of cells taken from the cervix.

(HPV/Pap cotest, NCI Dictionary)