Description
If you have a complex personal – or family – history of cancer (in other words, a family member or you have been diagnosed with cancer), then this test could help accurately diagnose, treat and manage the risks to your health.
It is a comprehensive analysis of your genetic risk of developing common cancers across eight major organ systems as well as the rarer Sarcoma cancers that grow in connective tissue — cells that connect or support other kinds of tissue in your body
In all, it tests 83 genes associated with gynaecological (breast, ovarian, uterine), gastrointestinal (colorectal, gastric, pancreatic), endocrine (thyroid, paraganglioma/pheochromocytoma, hyperparathyroidism) and genitourinary (renal/urinary tract, prostate) systems as well as cancers of the skin, blood (hematologic) brain and nervous system.
Your own clinician or one of our specialists can help advise you about which is the most appropriate test for you.
To get this test you will first need a consultation with our clinician where you can ask if this is the most appropriate option for you, then you can you can buy it directly from this website or at the clinic if you decide to go for consultation in person.
What sort of decisions will this test help me to make?
If you have not been diagnosed, this test will look at your risks so that you and your clinician can decide when to start any specific screening, such as mammogram/breast MRI, colonoscopy and, prostate cancer screening, and how often it should be repeated.
It maybe that you should consider preventative surgery such prophylactic mastectomy/colectomy (removing breasts or all or part of the colon before a cancer occurs) or other risk-reducing measures.
Informing treatment decisions
If you have been diagnosed, this test can help you and your clinician identify which could be the most effective chemotherapy for you – and importantly, any that are unlikely to be help you so that you can avoid unnecessary side effects. This test can also help determine whether you are eligible for any specific clinical trials.
Your family
This test can also indicate if other member of your family may have hereditary risk of developing cancers – and therefore what steps they need to take for further screening or monitoring.
* Test only available to those aged 18 years or above.
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