Unlocking Cancer Prevention

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Know Your Risks

Cancer is a common disease and most of us have someone in our family who has had cancer. It is natural to wonder if a relative’s cancer could increase your chance of developing cancer. Fortunately, most cancers are not inherited and are just due to aging, environmental factors or lifestyle factors such as smoking. However, about 1 out of 10 cancers do have an inherited cause. Having a personal or family history of certain types of cancers or other features (e.g. early age at cancer diagnosis) increases the risk for you to have an inherited cancer condition.

Understand Your Options

If there is a concern that the cancer in your family could be hereditary, your genetic expert can look at your personal and family history to help you understand more about your risks. You will be guided through different testing and management options to help decide what is best for you. Even if testing does not find hereditary cancer or if you do not pursue testing, your genetics expert can provide you with a personalized risk assessment and discuss targeted medical management options to consider to help reduce your cancer risks.

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Take Action

Having an inherited cancer condition does not mean you will get cancer, but it does increase the chance for specific cancers to occur. Sometimes knowing whether cancer screenings should start a few years earlier than you were planning or adding a different type of screening test can make all the difference. Options to lower the risk for cancer can be as simple as medications and lifestyle changes. Your genetic expert will review all of this in detail to help empower you to take steps to better manage your health.

Get Started

Genetic Risk Assessment Tool

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We use the first part of your Group ID (the numbers before the first hyphen) to make sure you’re an Aetna member and eligible to use this tool. Here is help locating your Group ID on your insurance card. We recommend keeping your insurance card out as you may need it later.

Once you click “Submit”, you’ll be asked questions about your personal and family health history to see if you may benefit from genetic counseling. You’ll see your results, scheduling options, and available resources once complete.

The questions should take less than 5 minutes. To protect your privacy, this site will not save your answers if you close the survey before completing it or if you leave the survey open for more than 30 minutes.

InformedDNA is neither the agent nor employee of Aetna. InformedDNA is solely responsible for the clinical services it offers to members through this program.