Cancer Genetics
The Cancer Genetics Program at University Hospitals brings together experts from the Center for Human Genetics and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center to help families with a history of breast, colon or pediatric cancers. The genetics team includes a clinical geneticist who specializes in cancer genetics, as well as an expert staff of cytogeneticists, geneticists, counselors, physicians, and researchers.
The program provides families with:
- Medical evaluations
- Genetic consultations
- Risk assessments
- Cancer screenings
- Guidance
Testing is also available for individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer and who have a strong family history of the disease. Results can help physicians and their patients learn if other cancers are likely to develop, enabling them to plan a stringent screening and prevention program.
Currently, the Center offers testing for:
- Breast cancer
- Childhood overgrowth syndrome
- Colon cancer
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome
- MEN (Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia), types 1 and 2
- Neurofibromatosis, type 2
- Ovarian cancer
- Osteosarcoma
- Prostate Cancer
- Retinoblastoma
- Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
- Wilms’ tumor