Cancer Prevention

If someone in your family has diagnose with cancer, you may tend to ask questions like “May my other family members and I be in risk of cancer?”, “Whether cancer is heritable? “, ” What can prevent cancer from other members of the family?” and ” Is the disease contagious? “.We, at MACSA, understand these concerns very well and, of course, have the best solutions to respond to them.

Learning about the nature of cancer and how it develops, can play an important role in mitigating these concerns. With the advent of a healthy lifestyle and recognizing the factors that may increase the risk of cancer, we can prevent many of them. Although some causes of cancers are still unclear, or they may cause factors such as aging, that they are unavoidable. Consequently, along with prevention, periodic screening and early detection of cancer are among the most important ways to cope with cancer. On the other hand, with the spread of rumors, non-scientific content and untrustworthy advice – which is causing concern and confusion among people in the community – the need for reliable sources to obtain such information is felt more than before. By providing services such as counseling for prevention, MACSA pursues scientific knowledge about cancer. We work at MACSA to spread awareness about cancer prevention, not only to families that have been affected by this disease but also to the entire community.

On the other hand, while only 5 to 10 percent of cancers are heritable, genetic counseling can help to identify families that are more likely to develop cancer. With medical interventions, we can reduce the risk of their catching cancer. In genetic counseling, after receiving accurate information from each family, tests may be prescribed to determine the damaged gene (the gene that can cause cancer in the future). This information helps the physician to determine the necessity and type of preventive interventions and identifies those who carry the mutated gene(s). In MACSA, genetic counseling is part of our mission to support the family of cancer patients.