The Importance of Family Health History Your Patients’ and Your Own

[摘要] As much as we might anticipate that the most cutting-edge scientific approaches to health assessment would afford the most reliable indicators for guiding health care decisions, that isn’t always the case. Researchers at the Genomic Medicine Institute’s Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare at the Cleveland Clinic recently reported that when an assessment of family health history was compared to evaluations from commercially available personal genome screening test kits, family health history consistently served as the superior tool for predicting an individual’s risk of developing certain diseases.1,2 More specifically, this study of 22 women with breast cancer and 22 men with prostate cancer was designed to determine the accuracy and concordance of risk assessment for 3 common forms of cancer (breast, prostate, colon) when risk was predicted by family history versus by the genomic screening kits marketed by one vendor (Navigenics, Foster City, California). Each assessment method was used to sort patients into one of 3 risk categories: general population, moderate risk, or high risk. Some of the more notable findings from this research include the following2:

[学科分类] 护理学

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