Monument Health Cancer Genetics and Prevention Clinic now offers comprehensive cancer genetic risk assessment.
A genetic screening can evaluate your cancer risk through a review of personal and family cancer history and determine your likelihood of acquiring certain genetic cancers or of passing them on to your next of kin.
Should you be diagnosed with cancer after your genetic screening, the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Clinic can also help you find and secure treatment – including preventative options – and offer guidance on which of your family members should also consider genetic cancer testing.
Contact the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Clinic if you or any of your family members have had:
- Female breast cancer age 50 or younger
- Male breast cancer at any age
- Ovarian cancer at any age
- Pancreatic cancer at any age
- Metastatic prostate cancer at any age
- Colon or rectal cancer age 50 or younger
- Renal Cancer age 46 or younger
- Family members with a known cancer gene mutation
FAQ
Genetic testing can provide useful information for you and your family to help understand the risk for developing certain cancers. By knowing about these risks, you have an opportunity to make informed health management decisions to prevent cancer or detect it at an early stage.
If you have tested positive for a mutation in a cancer risk gene, we would provide information and tools to help inform relevant family members of their options to get tested. Genetic testing can help them understand if they have a higher risk to develop certain cancers.
• Any relatives who have had a cancer diagnosis
• What age they were diagnosed
• Cancer type and or location
• If any relatives have had genetic testing
Depending on what test is ordered, results are typically available within a few weeks after testing. We will make recommendations for cancer screening and prevention based on your results and your personal or family history.
