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In this paper we show that using a person's personal health data it is possible to predict their risk for a wide variety of cancers. We dub this process a \u201cstatistical biopsy.\u201d Specifically, we train two neural networks, one predicting risk for 16 different cancer types in females and the other predicting risk for 15 different cancer types in males. The networks were trained as binary classifiers identifying individuals that were diagnosed with the different cancer types within 5 years of joining the PLOC trial. However, rather than use the binary output of the classifiers we show that the continuous output can instead be used as a cancer risk allowing a holistic look at an individual's cancer risks. We tested our multi-cancer model on the UK Biobank dataset showing that for most cancers the predictions generalized well and that looking at multiple cancer risks at once from personal health data is a possibility. 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