Comprehensive Genetic Screening

Beam Radiology is committed to offering the best available options to our patients. Part of this is examining the emerging resources and the scientific innovations that we now have access to. This includes GENETIC SCREENING.

Knowledge is power. Know your health-related genetic risks. Insight into your health-related risks allows for the opportunity to be proactive.

Take care of your loved ones by taking care of yourself with Beam’s Comprehensive Health Screening Programs.

**positive genetic screen allows for FREE genetic testing for blood relatives within 90 days of receiving your results.**

What is Comprehensive Screening?

Steps to a COMPREHENSIVE Screening:

1. Decide on the imaging package that makes sense for you and your proactive healthcare! CT & MRI
2. Inform Beam that you would like to include genetic screening
3. Beam will provide instructions on how to collect the appropriate genetic sample, and we will arrange or coordinate the shipment of this material to the genetics lab. Results typically available 7-21 days after the sample is received
4. Have your imaging performed at Beam Radiology
5. Receive a robust and comprehensive report regarding the areas interrogated by the imaging, and the genetic screening that has been paired with your exam
6. Feel rest assured that you have prioritized your health and you now have a clear and informed picture.

Who is this intended for?

Healthy individuals motivated to screen for hereditary conditions that, if detected early, may guide medical treatment or interventions. This may include recommendations for increased future screening/surveillance.

Those who value insight into their own health.

What conditions are being screened for?

According to the Genetic Screening Lab: “This test is intended for use to screen individuals for hereditary cancer susceptibility conditions that, if detected early, may have effective medical interventions and preventive measures. Conditions tested include, but are not limited to:”

• breast cancer
• colorectal cancer
• cutaneous melanoma
• gastric cancer
• ovarian cancer
• pancreatic cancer
• prostate cancer
• renal cell cancer
• thyroid cancer
• uterine cancer

What you need to know about your results and your protections

You are protected. Genetic screening for hereditary risks can be incredibly beneficial to healthcare planning and proactive lifestyle and medical care. There are specific federal protections in place for Canadians to prevent this information being used by third party entities, such as insurance companies.

The Genetic Non-Discrimination Act provides clear protections for all Canadians. Insurance companies are explicitly prohibited from searching for or collecting your genetic screening information without your written consent.

Excerpt:

“No one providing goods or services or entering into contract with someone is permitted to do the following:

• Require that person to take a genetic test
• Require that person to disclose the results of a genetic test
• Collect, use, or disclose that person’s genetic test results, no matter how those results were obtained – whether from a family member, a third party or through trawling the Internet – without the person’s written consent”

** Reference re Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, 2020 SCC17, Ottawa, ON: Supreme Court of Canada: 2020. Available from: https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2020/2020scc17/2020scc17.html. Accessed 2020 Dec 2.