Digital innovation for cancer risk assessment allows large-scale service redevelopment of regional cancer genetics service delivery.

ABSTRACT: Family-history assessment can identify individuals above population-risk for cancer to enable targeted Screening, Prevention and Early Detection (SPED). The online patient-facing cancer Family History Questionnaire Service (cFHQS) is a digitalised, resource efficient tool for family history data capture to facilitate this. The capturing of digital data from cFHQS allows for data interrogation of patients referred to Clinical Genetics for the purposes of service improvement. Digital data from 4,044 cFHQS respondents over a three-year period was collected and interrogated with respect to the number and type of familial tumour diagnoses to enable service improvement and streamlining of referral pathways. 81% of colorectal and 71% of breast screening assessments were population- or moderate-ri

SUBMITTER: Youngs A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512827 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature