A Visit to the Prevention Program

On your first visit to the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention Program, you'll meet with a team of breast and ovary experts, including a medical oncologist, a genetic counselor, a surgeon and a gynecological oncologist. You'll receive information about hereditary and non-hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk factors and strategies for risk reduction.

The team will help you develop a comprehensive, personalized program to try to prevent cancer from occurring and increase the likelihood of detecting cancer early, if it should occur.

Components of this plan may include chemoprevention (taking medicine to prevent cancer), screening by physical exam and imaging (mammogram, ultrasound, MRI), risk-reducing surgery, and new technologies or developments. If you are interested, you'll be given contact information for any research studies for which you are eligible.

Our services include:

• A comprehensive review of your personal and family risk factors for developing breast and/or ovarian cancer
• A clinical breast exam
• Breast self-examination instruction
• Review of your past mammograms
• Review of multiple ways to lower the risk of breast and ovarian cancer
• Development of a personalized cancer prevention plan
• Review of available research studies for cancer screening or prevention that may interest you.

If you would like to schedule an appointment or learn more about the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention Program, please call us at (206) 288-SCCA (288-7222).

 

October 2007