Our program is designed for patients with an increased risk of cancer for personal or family history reasons. Family history concerns include early onset cancers or multiple cancers in the family. Patients with certain health conditions that increase the risk of cancer, such as atypical ductal hyperplasia, may also benefit from further assessment and more frequent or additional cancer screening.
Our care team is committed to staying at the forefront of the latest research on cancer risk, screening and genetic testing. We provide patients with the opportunity to access new treatment options and participate in research as we continue to learn more about familial and heredity cancer syndromes.
Early Cancer Detection and Prevention
Risk assessment helps patients evaluate their risk so they can work with our program experts to develop screening and prevention plans.
Consider our program if you have a personal or family history of the following:
CANCERS DIAGNOSED AT ANY AGE
- Ovarian cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer that is “high risk”, “very high risk”, and/or metastatic
- Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors
- Paragangliomas/ pheochromocytomas
- Medullary thyroid cancer
- Aplastic anemia/bone marrow failure or MDS
- Retinoblastoma
- Family history with multiple people with the same cancer type on the same side of family.
BREAST CANCER
- Diagnosed at age 50 or younger
- Triple negative breast cancer at any age
- Male breast cancer at any age
COLON CANCER
- Diagnosed under age 50
- Diagnosed at any age with abnormal IHC/MSI
- 20+ adenomatous polyps
OTHER INDICATIONS THAT RECOMMEND GENETIC TESTING
- Uterine cancer diagnosed under age 50, and/or with abnormal IHC/MSI
- Kidney cancer diagnosed under at age 46 or younger
- AML diagnosed under age 50
- 3 or more melanomas
PERSONAL HISTORIES
- Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS)
- Atypical Ductal/Lobular hyperplasia (ADH/ALH)
- Radiation under age 30 (i.e. mantle radiation)
