Predicting Cancer Risk in Advance... Gangbuk Samsung Hospital Opens Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic
Opening Ceremony of the Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic.
Photo by Gangbuk Samsung Hospital
[Asia Economy Reporter Myunghwan Lee] Kangbuk Samsung Hospital announced on the 16th that it has opened a Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic and started consultations since the 10th.
At Kangbuk Samsung Hospital's Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic, a dedicated medical team consisting of doctors and genetic counseling nurses conducts risk assessments and pedigree analyses through preliminary consultations, followed by genetic testing and customized counseling and follow-up based on the results.
In addition, a multidisciplinary medical team composed of specialists from surgery, hematology-oncology, family medicine, laboratory medicine, pathology, and obstetrics and gynecology will interpret the genetic test results for each patient and discuss the optimal personalized treatment methods.
The Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital targets not only patients diagnosed with hereditary and familial cancers but also ▲ patients under follow-up after hereditary cancer diagnosis ▲ patients seeking to predict cancer risk and prevent it in advance through genetic testing ▲ high-risk patients due to family history.
Professor Eunyoung Kim of the Breast Surgery Department, in charge of the Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic, stated, "If genetic mutations are identified through genetic testing, the risk of disease onset can be significantly reduced through proactive prevention," adding, "The clinic's goal is to reduce patients' cancer risk and enable them to lead healthy lives through active prevention."
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Meanwhile, the Precision Medicine Genetic Clinic was conducted as part of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital's next-generation medical innovation team, M.I.T (Medical Innovation Team). MIT is an in-house project where creative and highly potential junior doctors can implement their ideas.
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