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Table 1 MeTree conditions and associated clinical decision support

From: Implementation-effectiveness trial of systematic family health history based risk assessment and impact on clinical disease prevention and surveillance activities

Condition

Guideline-based risk management recommendation

Monogenic RISK

 • Hereditary cancer syndromes (N = 20)

• Genetic counseling for comprehensive cancer risk assessment & management

 • Hereditary cardiovascular syndromes (N = 9)

• Genetic counseling for comprehensive inherited cardiac disease risk assessment & management

 • Familial hypercholesterolemia

• Genetic testing to screen for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

 • Thrombosis

• Genetic testing for inherited thrombophilia

• Genetic counseling for comprehensive inherited thrombophilia risk assessment & management

Familial risk

 • Breast cancer

• Breast cancer surveillance via annual breast MRI and mammography

• Discuss chemoprevention for breast cancer (tamoxifen or raloxifene)

• Discuss chemoprevention for breast cancer (tamoxifen)

 • Colon cancer

• Colonoscopy, with frequency based on number, size and histology of polyps

• Colonoscopy every 1–2 yrs with biopsies for dysplasia, beginning 8 yrs after onset of pancolitis, or 12–15 yrs after onset of left-sided colitis

• Early colorectal cancer surveillance (beginning at age 40)

• Early colorectal cancer surveillance (beginning at age 45)

• Early and more frequent colonoscopies (every 5 years beginning at age 40 or 10 yrs younger than the earliest diagnosis in the family, whichever comes first)