The Hereditary Cancer Clinic at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center offers cancer risk assessment and education to cancer patients and people with a family history of cancer or other cancer risk factors.

Confidentiality and caring are part of everything we do.

Our board-certified genetic counselors team with medical oncologists to provide each patient with information about:

• Risk of inherited cancers
• Ways to reduce the chance of developing cancer
• Ways increase the chance of early detection

Counseling sessions may also include discussions about genetic testing for cancer, which is available through the Hereditary Cancer Clinic.

Clinic staff work closely with other researchers from Duke and cancer centers nation-wide to better understand inherited cancers and to develop new tools for estimating cancer risk.

We encourage you to contact the Hereditary Cancer Clinic if you have:

• Any of the following in your personal or family history:
  • Cancer with unusually early age of diagnosis
  • Rare cancers (such as male breast cancer or ovarian cancer)
  • Multiple relatives with same cancer
  • Bilateral cancers or multiple primary cancers
  • Cancer diagnosed in two or more generations
  • Family member with an identified cancer gene mutation
  • Ethnicity that is prone to certain cancers

• Concerns or anxiety about personal or family cancer risk
• Questions about ways to prevent cancer of find it early
• Interest in genetic testing for hereditary cancer
• Interest in participating in cancer genetics research
• Concerns about environmental or medical exposures

Appointments

Call 919-684-3181 with questions or to make an appointment.