Cancer Health Assessments Reaching Many

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Aim 1. Implement a hereditary cancer risk-assessment program in healthy 18-49-year-old adults in primary care settings, with stakeholder input, and offer exome sequencing to clarify risk. Aim 1A. Identify and recruit 880 adult participants at-risk of a hereditary cancer syndrome. Aim 1B: Generate me...

Aim 1. Implement a hereditary cancer risk-assessment program in healthy 18-49-year-old adults in primary care settings, with stakeholder input, and offer exome sequencing to clarify risk. Aim 1A. Identify and recruit 880 adult participants at-risk of a hereditary cancer syndrome. Aim 1B: Generate medical exome sequence data and interpret variants. Aim 1C: Disclose findings from medical exome sequencing, incorporate results into the electronic medical record (EMR), and facilitate downstream patient management and coordination of care with the provider. Aim 1D. Engage stakeholders to tailor and optimize the program in diverse populations. Aim 2. Evaluate and tailor for diverse populations the critical interactions in the program, including the consent process, choices for reporting additional findings, and the response to results disclosure. Aim 2A. Design, implement, and assess a contextualized consent process to support informed decision-making about participation in research about medical exome sequencing. Aim 2B. Design, implement, and compare a novel decision aid in the second half of the study for selecting the optional categories of additional findings with the approach we developed in CSER1 that offered a category checklist. Aim 2C. Design, implement, and compare a modified (communication-focused) approach to results disclosure, genetic counseling, and decision making with a standard (information-focused) approach. . Aim 3. Evaluate the clinical utility (including personal utility) of using exome sequencing to diagnose individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes and provide additional findings. Aim 3A: Measure the yield of reportable findings for hereditary cancer syndromes and additional findings. Aim 3B: Evaluate subsequent healthcare utilization for all study participants and adherence to recommended care among individuals who are identified with a hereditary cancer syndrome in diverse settings. Aim 3C. Assess the personal utility of exome sequencing, including primary and additional findings. Aim 4. Address pragmatic and ethical challenges to the integration of genomic medicine into clinical and health systems decision-making. Aim 4A: Develop and pilot a system that integrates genomic, clinical, and healthcare utilization data to inform clinicians and patients acting on genomic information and to reduce care gaps in patient management. Aim 4B: Advance the analysis of the ethical and policy implications of incorporating personal utility of genomic information into the decision framework for healthcare coverage.

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