Cancer Genetic Counseling
The Cancer Genetic Counseling Shared Resource of the Yale Cancer Center is a clinical program that provides services to individuals at high-risk for hereditary cancer syndromes due to their personal or family histories of cancer. This program is based on a three part counseling model consisting of 1) obtaining a detailed medical and three-generational family history; 2) calculating a personalized risk assessment and providing options for prevention, surveillance, and genetic testing; 3) coordinating and interpreting genetic testing, and developing a management plan based on the test results.
Appropriate candidates include individuals who have a personal and/or family history of:
- multiple relatives on the same side of the family with the same cancer or related cancers (i.e. breast/ovarian, pancreatic/melanoma, colon/uterine/ovarian)
- cancer at unusually young age
- more than one diagnosis of cancer in the same individual
- rare cancers (i.e. male breast cancer, medullary thyroid cancer,etc.)
- a known altered cancer-predisposing gene
- Clinics at Yale are held weekly. Outreach clinics at Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT and Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT are held monthly.
The Cancer Genetic Counseling Shared Resource offers educational lectures and programs to medical and lay groups, and can provide clinical and technical support to research projects in the area of Cancer Genetics.
Contact
Ellen Matloff, MS
Director Cancer Genetic Counseling Shared Resource
Yale Cancer Center
(203) 764-8400
Fax: (203) 764-8401
ellen.matloff@yale.edu
