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Source: Hospital Program Review
Summary:
A recently developed program at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles named the GenRisk Program, provides genetic risk
assessment, diagnosis, testing and counseling for common, chronic
disease.
A genetic susceptibility to disease means that a
person carries a mutation in a gene or genes that has a major effect on
disease development. It does not tell us when or if the disease will occur,
only that an individual is at greater risk.
Some of these diseases include: Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, ovarian cancer,
breast cancer, colon cancer, melanoma and prostate cancer.
Discovering if you have a genetic susceptibility to disease is important
because it can alert us to pursue: Enhanced surveillance, chemoprevention,
prophylactic surgery, healthy lifestyle choices and information for relatives
at risk.
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