Cancer prevention queries increase 8% inherited.
the genetic Council of the Hospital Provincial de Castellón unit conducts research to identify the risk of developing a tumor.
Castellón, 2011-September Unit of genetic counselling in Oncology of the Consortium hospital Provincial de Castellón, dedicated to identifying and advising people that by his family history may be susceptibility to certain types of cancer, has been in the last year a total of 319 consultations, an increase of 8 percent.
The directors of the Centre, Nicholas Martinez and Miguel Llorens, stressed Thursday the work of this device, which made genetic studies that allow to identify those individuals at risk of developing a hereditary cancer, as these tumors present mutations in specific genes that predispose to the development of a malignancy.
According to experts, it is estimated that you between 5 and 10 per cent of diagnosed cancers are hereditary.
the advice that is carried out from this unit tries to determine the risk that members of a family are suffering from cancer; as well as the possibilities of transmitted to their descendants and establish the necessary measures to reduce the risk, or at least, proceed with a detection as early as possible to the tumors.
Thus, the probability of these individuals to transmit these mutations to their offspring is 50 percent.
Reduce the incidence of cancer and his death is therefore the objective unit that, in doing so, primarily carries out intensive surveillance in order to detect early tumors among people at risk for hereditary cancer and proposes, in certain cases, surgical prevention measures or with drugs.
The director of the Oncology Institute, Carlos Ferrer, explained that genetic studies manage to improve the prognosis for positive cases, at the time posed a reassurance to those absolute negative cases.
The most common queries relate to hereditary colon cancer polipósico, breast cancer and hereditary ovarian and polyposis adematosa family, which correspond to the most frequent pathologies among those that have a potentially treatable genetic component.
Multidisciplinary unit
The unit is composed of a multidisciplinary team of health professionals specialized and trained in this area as an oncologist, a nurse and a psychologist that offers support to the emotional impact suffered by a person who knows that it has a risk of developing cancer quite higher than the general population of their age.
Medical specialists and primary care can refer to the unit to people who meet very defined selection criteria and that three or more members of a same family submitted the same type of tumor or early age at the diagnosis.
