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Knowing Is Caring - for Yourself and Your Family

Knowing Is Caring - for Yourself and Your Family

Genetic screening for women 25 to 40

Genetic cancer screening helps you make health-wise choices for your care and possibly helps family members, too. Ask your doctor about hereditary risk screening if you’re between 25 and 40 years old.

The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute offers screening for cancers such as:

• Breast
• Endometrial, uterine, ovarian
• Gastric, colon, rectal
• Melanoma (skin)
• Pancreatic
• Metastatic prostate (if assigned male at birth)

To schedule your appointment, call 561-955-GENE (4363)

The Morgan Pressel Center for Cancer Genetics at Lynn Cancer Institute provides expert genetic counseling and testing. Using detailed family history and the latest genetic tests, our team can help reduce cancer’s impact on you and your family.

Inherited genetic mutations cause approximately 5 to 10 percent of cancers. Our genetics program at Lynn Cancer Institute can help identify if you have an inherited risk for developing cancer.

If we find that you have an inherited cancer risk, we can work with you to develop a personalized screening and prevention plan.

Who benefits from the cancer genetics program?

Family history can play an important role in cancer risk. With that in mind, you should consider genetic counseling and testing if:

  • Two or more of your close blood relatives have had cancer, especially breast, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, colorectal, uterine or kidney cancer.
  • The same type of cancer has occurred in more than one relative on the same side of the family.
  • A family member has had more than one type of cancer.
  • A family member under age 50 has been diagnosed with cancer.
  • A family member has been diagnosed with a rare cancer or tumor.
  • A family member has had two or more separate tumors occur in the same organ (for example, breast cancer in both breasts).

You may also want to consider genetic testing if you’ve been diagnosed with multiple types of cancer or if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer before age 50. Certain ancestry groups, such as those with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, may also be more likely to have inherited cancer risk.

Depending on your risk factors and genetic test results, we may recommend testing your family members, as well.

Why should I have genetic testing?

If you’re thinking about genetic testing, it’s important to have genetic counseling first. Meeting with a genetics expert can help you understand the pros and cons of testing.

If you decide after counseling that genetic testing is right for you, the results can help your care team:

  • Develop a more rigorous screening plan that will help your doctor find and detect signs of cancer earlier. When cancer is caught early, it is more likely to be at a treatable or curable stage.
  • Prevent certain deadly cancers, such as ovarian cancer, using preventive surgery.
  • Identify which family members or offspring may have an increased cancer risk, helping reduce cancer's impact on their lives.
  • Determine personalized therapy options that may be more effective in treating your specific type of cancer.
  • Learn more about inherited cancer risk, which can contribute to research and improved treatments for future patients.

What does the Lynn Cancer Institute genetics program offer?

Our program has access to all of the latest genetic testing technology and we can provide detailed results that include up-to-date data on gene mutations.

Our highly skilled experts understand how to interpret these complex test results. We’ll explain the results with you in detail and help you make a more informed decision about your care.

If you’re already being treated at Lynn Cancer Institute, our experts may be a part of your multidisciplinary team. Since certain types of cancer, like breast cancer, are more likely to run in families, we’ll gather your family history and determine if you or your family may benefit from genetic testing.

What can patients expect when they come for genetic counseling and testing?

Before your first appointment with our team, we’ll ask you to provide your family history and personal health background. We’ll use an online program that will allow you to do this from home.

When we meet with you, we’ll go over all of this information and discuss whether you may have an inherited cancer risk. If we think testing might be right for you, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of testing.

If you decide to have testing, we’ll ask you to provide a saliva or blood sample. You can provide this during the appointment or we can send a saliva sample kit to your home.

Most genetic test results take between two and four weeks. Once we have the results, we’ll meet with you to go over them in detail. We’ll talk about what they mean, whether there is an increased risk for cancer, and whether other family members should undergo testing.

If we find you have an inherited cancer risk, we’ll work directly with you and your doctor to develop a personalized prevention and screening plan.

Are you at risk?

You have probably heard that family history plays an important role in certain cancers such as breast, ovarian and colon cancer. You may even feel a little safer learning that a gene does not run in your family. With advances in genetics, prevention and early detection, everyone should ask…am I at risk?

Take our Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment

  • Have two or more of your close blood relatives had cancer?
  • Has the same type of cancer occurred in more than one relative on the same side of the family?
  • Has any individual in your family had more than one type of cancer?
  • Has cancer been diagnosed in a family member under 50 years of age?
  • Has a rare cancer or tumor occurred in an individual or several individuals within your family?
  • Have two or more separate tumors occurred in the same organ in any family member (for example, breast cancer in both breasts)?

If you answer yes to any of the above questions, you may want to consider making an appointment at the Morgan Pressel Center for Cancer Genetics with our Oncology Team. The Genetic Advanced Practitioner will take a detailed medical and family history and construct a family tree. A comprehensive assessment of risk and specific genetic risk assessment will be provided to you along with recommendations regarding testing.

A genetic cancer risk assessment provides you with information regarding your risk of cancer based on your personal and family history. You will learn whether or not you are at increased risk, and most importantly, what you can do about it. A genetic test may give you more information about your cancer risk so you can make medical lifestyle choices accordingly-such as increased surveillance and taking steps to reduce your risk. Research now demonstrates that medical advances in technology allow us to offer prevention and lifesaving approaches to high risk individuals. At the center, we will help you in identifying individual genetic risk factors and preventing cancer before it starts.

Genetic Testing Research

Our team is involved with the City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network. All of our patients have the option to participate in this research by submitting their genetic test results and health information. By participating, you can contribute to research that may lead to breakthroughs in cancer prevention, screening and treatment. As part of this network, we can also access new information about genetic mutations and their link to cancer.

If you would like to meet with our genetics team, you can request an appointment by calling:

Our Approach

Our Approach

When you come to the Morgan Pressel Center for Cancer Genetics at Lynn Cancer Institute, you can expect:

  • Genetics experts who are highly skilled at interpreting test results.
  • A compassionate team that will help make sure you understand the testing process, results and any preventive steps you need to take.
  • Collaboration with your physician on a screening and prevention plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • La HIPEC se administra al momento de la cirugía para extirpar tumores en el abdomen. El tratamiento solamente es eficaz si no hay ningún tumor en el abdomen, por lo que los médicos deciden durante la operación quirúrgica si un paciente recibirá el tratamiento de la HIPEC o no.

    Durante la HIPEC, se insertan catéteres (tubos delgados y flexibles) en el abdomen y se bombean agentes quimioterápicos a través de ellos para hacer una especie de “lavado” de quimioterapia. Los agentes quimioterápicos se calientan a poco más de 100 °F. Se ha demostrado que esta técnica, también llamada “quimioterapia caliente”, es más eficaz para destruir las células cancerosas.

  • En muchos tratamientos oncológicos es necesario que los pacientes esperen de cuatro a seis semanas después de la cirugía para empezar el tratamiento de quimioterapia. Con la HIPEC, los agentes quimioterápicos pueden empezar a destruir las células cancerosas mucho antes, lo que se ha demostrado que conduce a mejores resultados.

    Esta técnica además puede administrar una dosis alta de quimioterapia caliente directamente en el tejido donde normalmente el cáncer prolifera o se disemina. El tratamiento no tiene que combatir los tumores existentes para penetrar los tejidos y los agentes calientes tienen más probabilidades de atacar las células cancerosas.

    A diferencia del tratamiento de quimioterapia tradicional, que pasa por el hígado o los riñones hasta llegar al abdomen, la HIPEC evita que otros órganos queden expuestos a los efectos secundarios nocivos.

  • En muchos tratamientos oncológicos es necesario que los pacientes esperen de cuatro a seis semanas después de la cirugía para empezar el tratamiento de quimioterapia. Con la HIPEC, los agentes quimioterápicos pueden empezar a destruir las células cancerosas mucho antes, lo que se ha demostrado que conduce a mejores resultados.

    Esta técnica además puede administrar una dosis alta de quimioterapia caliente directamente en el tejido donde normalmente el cáncer prolifera o se disemina. El tratamiento no tiene que combatir los tumores existentes para penetrar los tejidos y los agentes calientes tienen más probabilidades de atacar las células cancerosas.

    A diferencia del tratamiento de quimioterapia tradicional, que pasa por el hígado o los riñones hasta llegar al abdomen, la HIPEC evita que otros órganos queden expuestos a los efectos secundarios nocivos.

Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Our team includes:

  • Louise Morrell, MD
  • Marlene E. Cepeda-Goodwin, registered physician assistant – certified

Estudios clínicos

En Lynn Cancer Institute brindamos tratamiento a quienes padecen la enfermedad en la actualidad y ofrecemos esperanza a los que quizá puedan contraerla en el futuro. Mediante los estudios clínicos, evaluamos nuevas formas prometedoras de diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer. Como nuestro paciente, tendrá acceso a estos estudios y tratamientos que no están ampliamente disponibles en otros lugares. Si un estudio clínico podría ser adecuado en su caso, hablaremos con usted sobre los posibles beneficios y riesgos, y si decide participar, tenga la confianza de que hacemos de su bienestar general y de su seguridad nuestra máxima prioridad.

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