The High-Risk Cancer Prevention and Wellness Program at Sylvester is designed to support risk reduction and the early identification of all cancers.
Our comprehensive, multidisciplinary program utilizes the expertise and resources of Sylvester’s Genetic Predisposition Syndrome (GPS) Clinic and High-Risk Cancer Screening Program to best serve our current patients and other community members seeking to understand their unique cancer risk and how to reduce it. Identifying genetic predisposition syndromes that significantly elevate the risk of certain cancers empowers our patients and their families to make early and informed decisions.
A multidisciplinary approach to personalized care
The High-Risk Cancer Prevention and Wellness Program offers the most advanced techniques to assess patients’ unique risks for new and recurring cancers.
Sylvester’s integrated approach guides patients and families through every step of their journey. We provide a variety of services that includes:
- nurse navigation support
- consultation
- screening recommendations
- genetic testing and counseling
- personalized lifestyle modification recommendations
- surgical risk reduction
- innovative research
- psychosocial services
- support for family members
- monitoring and follow-ups
Informed by Sylvester’s cancer and genetics research and supported by UHealth’s vast network of multidisciplinary providers and experts, our personalized prevention and care plans can help reduce patients’ cancer risk and promote early detection.
Could your patients benefit from risk assessment and genetic testing with the High-Risk Cancer Prevention and Wellness Program? We welcome patient referrals from external providers.
We can evaluate patients with:
- a concern about individual cancer risk (or you have a concern about their risk)
- a close blood relative who has tested positive for a pathogenic variant (mutation) in a gene linked to hereditary cancer
- a family history of many relatives (on one side of the family) who have had the same type of cancer
- a family history of breast cancer diagnosed at <50 years
- a personal history or family history of a first- or second-degree relative with ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, male breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, or metastatic/high risk prostate cancer (regardless of age)
- ≥3 diagnoses of breast and/or prostate cancer (any grade) on the same side of the family
- a history of >10 polyps in the colon
- Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry
Does your patient meet the following criteria?
Your patient can be referred to our High-Risk Cancer Clinic if you are concerned about their cancer risk or if they:
- haven’t received a cancer diagnosis
- haven’t gone through genetic testing, with or without family history of cancer
- have no known familial genetic mutations
Your patient can be referred to our Genetic Predisposition Syndrome (GPS) Clinic if they:
- or a first-degree family member have been diagnosed with a cancer genetic predisposition syndrome
- have not been previously diagnosed with cancer or
- have been previously diagnosed and are not on active treatment
For referring physicians
The High-Risk Cancer Prevention and Wellness Program offers personalized risk reduction for and monitoring of your high-risk patients.
Our team will communicate with you regarding your patients’ risk assessment findings, screening and surveillance recommendations, and screening plans. Your patients may also benefit from our program’s fertility preservation/assisted reproductive fertility counseling (selecting embryos that do not contain the mutation), rare hereditary syndrome management services, and lifestyle medicine/health coaching that improve patients’ overall wellness and quality of life. These services include patient education, exercise physiology, social work and dietary/nutrition guidance. If cancer is diagnosed, our patients will have expedited access to Sylvester’s nationally renowned cancer physicians and services.
To refer a patient to the High-Risk Cancer Wellness and Prevention Program, please complete and submit the Patient Referral Form below.
Once we receive the referral form, we will call your patient to schedule an initial appointment at our clinic, or if you would prefer one of our Nurse Navigators or another provider will call you to discuss the referral.
