Family History of Cancer
Clinical Guidance
For guidance on referrals for patients with a family history of cancer please see links below:
Family History of Breast/Ovarian Cancer
Family History of Colorectal Cancer
There is also information for patients on the Cancer Genetics page of the UHB website including a downloadable patient leaflet.
Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
Information provided through Remedy is continually updated so please be aware any printed copies may quickly become out of date.