The Hereditary Cancer Test - Advanced Molecular Diagnostics is the first Comprehensive Cancer Risk Assessment test designed to determine your risk of developing up to 8 cancer types. Armed with this critical genetic information as well as other medical and family facts, you can create a strategy to reduce your risk of developing one or more of these 8 prevalent cancers.
Genetic testing for cancer risk is predictive testing, which means a test that can help predict the likelihood that an individual will develop cancer in his or her lifetime. Not everyone with a cancer-related gene will develop cancer.
People at a higher risk for cancer may have the option of having more frequent cancer screenings, avoiding specific risk factors, making lifestyle changes to lessen additional risk, taking preventive medication (chemoprevention) or having risk reducing surgeries in order to reduce their risk of developing cancer.