Hereditary Cancer Susceptibility Testing
Hereditary Cancer Testing For Women
Advanced Gynecology is happy to offer testing for cancer susceptibility genes to women with a family history of certain types of cancers. We currently offer testing for both Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome (HBOC) and Lynch syndrome.
What We Test For
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome is caused by mutations in the BRCA gene. If you have breast or ovarian cancers in your family or Jewish ancestry, you may meet criteria for testing for this gene.
Lynch Syndrome, or HNPCC (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer), is associated with cancers of the colon, endometrium (inner uterine lining), stomach, ovaries, ureter or renal pelvis (kidney), biliary tract (related to gallbladder), small bowel, pancreas, brain, or sebaceous adenomas.
If you have any of these cancers in your family, it is generally recommended that the person with the cancer undergo testing first, but in many cases, this is not possible or feasible. Please, attempt to find out at what ages the family member’s cancer was diagnosed.
Results
Finding out these test results allows us to manage your care more appropriately by knowing your individual risks. Should you test positive for a mutation, we can better screen for the cancers of concern and hopefully prevent the cancer, or at least detect it very early, when it is readily treatable. Even if you test negative, a strong family history may put you at least at increased risk, and we would want to screen carefully to offer maximum protection. If you test negative, your children do not need to be tested. However, if you have brothers and/or sisters, they should be tested as well. Either result is helpful information to have for both you and your family’s healthcare.
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