Who should be regularly followed at the genetic clinic/consultation?

The aim at the family genetic clinic is to assess the real risk of cancer in high-risk families, to propose the best preventive measures to avoid the disease.

After this evaluation, only those with a high risk of cancer will be regularly followed at the clinic.

High-risk individuals here are those who carry a mutation associated with a syndrome of breast cancer (e.g., BRAC), or those presenting a worrying family and clinical history but without a genetic test or with an inconclusive one.

High-risk women need a closer, more regular specialist follow-up, and identified carriers should also be given the option of surgical prophylactic solutions to reduce disease risk.

In less severe cases, a disease surveillance plan is recommended to the woman’ general practitioner (GP), to be followed as she visits her doctor regularly.

Even without evidence of high risk of cancer, the doctor from the family genetics clinic might decide that you should be under tighter monitoring than what is recommended to the general population. If this occurs, the information will be passed to your GP.