Oral Presentation Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

Closing the loop – managing the patient and the family (#113)

Debra Trott 1
  1. CALHN (Central Adelaide Local Health Network) RAH site, ADELAIDE, SA, Australia

Genetic testing and the identification of disease causing (pathogenic) mutations is enabling individualised cancer risk advice to be given to individuals and their genetic relatives. This talk will include a number of clinical cases to illustrate a number of real world issues including:

  • disclosure of results
  • residual cancer risk calculation
  • family risk notification and cascade/predictive genetic testing
  • the importance of family communication for maximising the clinical utility of genetic testing for inherited cancer predisposition