Genetic Counseling Office

Introduction

The Role of the Genetic Counseling Room

The counseling room strengthens cooperation between medical departments and provides support to patients.

1. Providing information related to the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary diseases, etc.
2. Clinical education and research related to hereditary diseases, etc., and awareness-raising activities for these diseases
3. Providing information related to private services, such as support organizations
4. Providing other information related to clinical genetic medicine

Target diseases and symptoms

1) Hereditary tumor consultation (in cooperation with the genomics department and other departments)

Lynch syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis, hereditary breast cancer/ovarian cancer syndrome, Cowden disease, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, etc.

2) Prenatal diagnosis (in cooperation with obstetrics and gynecology)

Non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT), amniotic fluid chromosome testing, amniotic fluid genetic testing, precise fetal ultrasound Fetal morphological abnormalities, fetal congenital diseases, recurrence of the next child due to the previous child's disease (Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta, etc.)
We also handle recurrent pregnancy loss (second opinion for preimplantation diagnosis for chromosomal abnormalities in couples)

3) Hereditary incurable disease consultation (in cooperation with the incurable disease consultation center)

If you would like to be examined, please call us.
Depending on the content of your consultation, we will refer you to the relevant medical department or the Intractable Disease Support Counseling Room.

Number of genetic counseling sessions in FY2024