Implementing a screening tool for identifying patients at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: a statewide initiative

L Brannon Traxler, ML Martin, AS Kerber… - Annals of surgical …, 2014 - Springer
… A positive screen was a client at potentially high risk for … based on family history, as determined
by the B-RST tool that was … screen included review of personal health and family history

Evidenced-based screening strategies for a positive family history

JM Kolb, DJ Ahnen… - Gastrointestinal …, 2020 - giendo.theclinics.com
… with greater than 100,000 people using self-reported family history questionnaires
demonstrated increased risk among those with affected FDRs compared with no family history (…

Personalizing prenatal care using family health history: identifying a panel of conditions for a novel electronic genetic screening tool

BK Lin, E Edelman, JD McInerney, JO 'Leary… - Personalized …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In the age of genomic medicine, family health history (FHH) remains an important tool for
personalized risk assessment as it can inform approaches to disease prevention and …

The PROFILE feasibility study: targeted screening of men with a family history of prostate cancer

E Castro, C Mikropoulos, EK Bancroft, T Dadaev… - The …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… use of SNP profiling as a screening tool in this population. … to prostate cancer screening in
men with a family history and … could be a potential future screening tool for prostate cancer. …

Population-based study of the prevalence of family history of cancer: implications for cancer screening and prevention

SD Ramsey, P Yoon, R Moonesinghe… - Genetics in Medicine, 2006 - nature.com
… If family cancer history is to be a useful screening tool, certain subgroups of the
population might benefit from targeted programs to raise awareness about the importance of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of a breast/ovarian cancer genetics referral screening tool in a mammography population

CA Bellcross, AA Lemke, LS Pape, AL Tess… - Genetics in …, 2009 - Elsevier
… A cancer genetics consultation, prompted either by a positive RST screen or an unusual
family history, may reveal that testing for syndromes associated with genes other than BRCA1/2 …

Family history and colorectal cancer screening: a survey of physician knowledge and practice patterns

PC Schroy III, AF Barrison, BS Ling… - Official journal of the …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
screening for a family history of CRC, but relatively few (37% vs 36%) recommended screening
at age 40 for a family history … as the preferred screening tool (97% vs 76%, respectively; p …

Use of family history taking for hereditary neoplastic syndromes screening in primary health care: a systematic review protocol

RM Pessanha, SIPC Schuab, KZ Nunes… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… Hence, our research question was: “What scientific evidence is available on the impact of
using family history as a genomic technology for screening for hereditary neoplastic …

Prospective comparison of family medical history with personal genome screening for risk assessment of common cancers

B Heald, E Edelman, C Eng - European Journal of Human Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
… Based on medical history and family history, a genetic differential diagnosis is formulated
and genetic testing offered based on the clinical differential diagnosis. This model of …

A new electronic screening tool for identifying risk of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice

L Troeung, D Arnold-Reed, WCS Ping-Delfos, GF Watts… - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
… We found that family history was poorly documented for the majority of patients and no
patients had a record of arcus cornealis or tendinous xanthomata. This highlights the need for …