COMPREHENSIVE HEREDITARY CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT

National HealthCare Center is pleased to offer its clients a comprehensive suite of genetic tests, allowing the physicians we serve to provide truly personalised healthcare. Coupling the lates aboratory technologies with highly trained genomic scientists and counselors keeps our clients cutting edge.

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based screening for mutations known to affect an individual’s risk of developing hereditary cancer is performed at our state-of-the-art, CLIA-certified facility. NHCC test results, along with a treating physician’s expertise, are used to make better informed treatment and/or monitoring decisions.

EXAMPLES OF COMMON HEREDITARY CANCERS & CANCER SYNDROMES

• Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (BRCA1, BRCA2)
• Lynch Syndrome (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6,
• Colon Cancer (APC, BMPR1A, EPCAM)                                  PMS2, EPCAM)
• Uterine Cancer (MLH1, MSH2, EPCAM, MSH6, PMS2)  
• Cowden Syndrome (PTEN)
• Endometrial Cancer (EPCAM, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6) LiFraumeni Syndrome (TP53

WHO SHOULD GET TESTED

If you suspect that you or someone you know may have an increased risk for cancer-based on factors like abnormal familial cancer history or membership in an at-risk ethnic population (such as Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)-you may want to discuss advanced genomic testing options with your healthcare provider. If one of your family members, however distant, has been diagnosed with cancer, there is a chance that you inherited a gene mutation that not only increases      your personal risk of developing cancer, but may also be to passed on to your offspring-potentially increasing their risk of developing cancer. Mutation of the genes known to be associated with an increased risk of developing cancer, like those involved in DNA repair, often result in cancers that appear unique. An individual’s familial cancer history may include a number of seemingly distant cancer cases. This mistakingly leads to the belief that the cancers are un-related, and not caused by a hereditary mutation.

COMPREHENSIVE HEREDITARY CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT

National HealthCare Center is pleased to offer its clients a comprehensive suite of genetic tests, allowing the physicians we serve to provide truly personalised healthcare. Coupling the lates aboratory technologies with highly trained genomic scientists and counselors keeps our clients cutting edge.

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based screening for mutations known to affect an individual’s risk of developing hereditary cancer is performed at our state-of-the-art, CLIA-certified facility. NHCC test results, along with a treating physician’s expertise, are used to make better informed treatment and/or monitoring decisions.

UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF GENETIC HEART DISEASE

• • BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE DISEASE, when your heart valve has only two flaps instead of three, causing it to leak or narrow.

  • CARDIOMYOPATHY, in which your heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick or stiff. This includes hypertropic cardiomyopathy, which can cause cardiac arrest in younger people, especially young athletes.

  • MARFAN SYNDROME, which damages the connective tissues in your heart and blood vessels, making you more prone to aneurysms.

  • ARRHYTHMIA, an irregular heartbeat, including Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

  • CARDIAC AMYLOIDOSIS, where your heart builds up protein deposits that make it harder to pump.

  • LOEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME, a connective tissue disorder that can cause an aortic aneurysm

WHY GET TESTED

Advanced Knowledge – This test might give you the advance knowledge that you might develop heart disease or that you might have 50% increased risk of suffering a heart attack, which can help you make decisions that will limit the risk. Mutations in genes can affect the way the heart cells communicate, the strength of the heart muscle, and affect the heart rhythm condition, resulting in fast, chaotic heartbeats.Identifying these genetic factors now plays an important role in the disease prognosis, therapy and therefore, the outcome.

At NHCC™  (National Health Care Center), Stockbridge and Atlanta, GA locations our doctors take the time to understand your concerns and tailor treatment to fit your needs.

Our primary care physicians are usually the first medical practitioner contacted by a patient because of factors such as ease of communication, accessible location, familiarity, and increasingly issues of cost and managed care requirements.

Whenever possible, our doctors counsel and educate patients on safe health behaviors, self-care skills and treatment options, and provide screening tests and immunizations. In most cases the physician acts on behalf of the patient collaborating with referral specialists in an effort to coordinate care given by varied organizations such as hospitals or rehabilitation clinics, act as a comprehensive repository for the patient’s records, and provide long-term management of chronic conditions.

When you choose NHCC™, you can trust your primary care doctor is a board certified and experienced practitioner delivering the latest advances in treatment so that you would benefit from a higher level of care.

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Having a pharmacy in our clinic is another innovative approach to improving adherence to medication therapies.

Our physicians can immediately consult with the pharmacist if they have questions regarding medications, optimal regimens, potential adverse interactions, or the availability of new medications.

The pharmacist will create a profile of your medication history, answer questions about prescriptions, discuss potential adverse effects, and provide an action plan to guide you through the total regimen. This complete information environment is designed to give patients the best chance of a successful outcome.

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