High-risk screening for cancer prevention and early detection

What would you do if you discovered you had an increased risk of cancer? “Thankfully, most people don’t need to worry about the answer, because most cancers develop sporadically,” said Dr. Iqbal Garcha, general surgeon at Northside Hospital. Sporadic cancer is due to non-hereditary factors such as environmental exposures, lifestyle choices or age, according to Ale xandra Wallgren, MS, CGC, a licensed and certified genetic counselor at Northside. Wallgren said approximately “5-10% of all…
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