Abstract B84: Practical risk assessment: Identifying women at risk for hereditary cancer in a low-income cancer clinic

Conclusions: A hereditary risk assessment strategy utilizing a 10-item RISK tool is an effective means for physicians practicing in a low-income, predominantly African-American clinic to easily identify appropriate patients with history of breast cancer for genetic counseling referral. Further, the extremely high participation rate of this patient population may indicate a high level of interest in genetic screening. Importantly, a number of patients did not follow through and attend the genetic counseling appointments; we are studying the reasons behind this lack of follow-through. Overall, this strategy could be easily implemented in other busy low-income clinics to screen patients for risk of hereditary cancer.1 Joseph G. et al. 2012 Public Health Genomics. 2 Harris et al. 2009. J Biomed Inform. 3 National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Genetic/High-risk Breast_Ovarian (Version 2.2016).This study was funded by GreaterGood.org and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Citation Format: Eden Biltibo, Philip E. Lammers, Kimberley Thomas, Smita Rao, Renee Ashworth, Georgia L. Wiesner. Practical risk assessment: Identifying women at risk for hereditary cancer in a low-income cancer clinic. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Ninth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2016 Sep 25-28; Fort Lauderdale, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2017;26(2 Suppl):Abstract nr B84.
Source: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Other Risk Factors: Poster Presentations - Proffered Abstracts Source Type: research