Mind & Body | Healthcare: Taking Care of our Community
Genetics Testing at
CHRISTUS Ochsner
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Lake Area Hospital CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital is focused on healing, but the main goal is prevention through knowing your risks and creating a specialized plan that is unique to you. Thanks to medical research, CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area now offers a wellness, screening and genetics program that allows patients to answer a few simple questions to determine their cancer risks.
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By offering newly developed tools for identifying both genetic and lifestyle cancer risk, advanced imaging technology and personalized management of cancer risk, this program enables patients to understand and address their risk at a much earlier stage in their lives. As the name implies, the program focuses on three primary areas: wellness assessment, screening tests and genetic risk factors. For the initial wellness assessment, a Nurse Navigator is assigned to all patients who are at a higher-thanaverage risk for developing breast cancer. Lifestyle recommendations are then made and managed for patients who need to reduce their weight and stress for improved wellness. This provides patients a chance to take an initial, active role in their own care and treatment.
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Thrive Magazine for Better Living • October 2019