( DALLAS Family members of those who are...)Genetic Testing Helping Cancer Survivors Fight For Their Loved Ones,Health

DALLAS, Family members of those who are successfully fighting cancer are protecting themselves and their families from the disease through genetic testing and hereditary cancer risk assessment. Genetic testing offers early detection and the opportunity to not only reduce the risk of cancer, but to save lives.

Genetic testing identifies whether or not an individual has an increased risk for certain types of cancer. While you don't inherit cancer, you can inherit a higher risk for developing it. Families celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day(R) this month agree that early detection is one of the best ways people can protect their health and raise the chances of successful outcomes.

A growing number of cancer patients are choosing to be tested for genetic abnormalities that significantly increase the risk of getting the disease in a different form.

"With genetic testing, we are able to identify a unique subgroup of patients whose medical management will likely change due to a higher risk of developing cancer because of an inherited mutated gene. With a combination of increased surveillance and preventative strategies, we are able to decrease the risk of dying from either breast or ovarian cancer in a great number of these patients," said Dr. John Sandbach of Texas Oncology, the world's largest group of medical professionals focused solely on cancer care.

"More and more people are discovering this valuable tool and taking action." Approximately 10 percent of properly selected breast cancer patients carry either a BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutation. Of that group of patients, somewhere between 50-80 percent will develop breast cancer if appropriate preventative strategies are not implemented.

Increasingly, many of those family members who are finding that they have inherited a genetic abnormality are taking steps such as closer medical surveillance, drug/hormone therapy for prevention, or surgery to thwart
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