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Welcome
Welcome to the Genetic Risk Easy Assessment Tool (GREAT) at Case Western Reserve University & University Hospitals Case Medical Center. If you have used the GREAT before, please use the same UserID number whenever you login again, NOT a new number. If you have forgotten your UserID number, contact the administrator at (216) 368-0861.
Your family health history is valuable. It may show patterns that suggest what you and your relatives could do to stay healthy. It may show patterns that could reveal a genetic basis for diseases in the family.
- For example, family history can be used to estimate someone's risk of getting breast cancer or some other types of cancer. That's important, because many cancers are preventable, and the earlier they are detected, the more easily they're cured. If you know that your family medical history increases your risk for cancer, you can take steps to prevent it or detect it in its earliest stages. The same is true for other common diseases, such as diabetes. In a few families, it may be possible to find an inherited genetic change that can cause disease.
Our goal is to make it easy to record and use your family medical information---for yourself, for your health care, for your family, or to contribute to medical research.
Record your family medical history and receive your family tree and family risk prevention report
The GREAT helps you to record your family medical history by answering questions about the people in your family. When you are finished, the computer will draw your family tree and create a personal report of your family history risk and preventive measures for cancer.
Whether or not there is any family history of cancer, your family health history is important for your medical care. This website makes it easy to keep a copy of the family tree for your medical records. You can save or print your family tree and the report. Discuss with your health care provider what this means for your health, what next steps to take and what you might want to say to your relatives.
You can return later to finish or change your family history and get a new report.
Your privacy is protected by Secure Socket Layers, passwords, and encryption (See "Privacy and Security").
What information will you need? - Who is in your family and how they are related to you. You can give initials to make it easy to keep track of them. (This is optional.)
- Ancestry or ethnic background of your grandparents. This can be important for inherited diseases.
- If you are adopted and know some medical history for your biological relatives, you can record the information that you have.
- For each biological relative, both living and deceased, the GREAT will ask
- Age: how old they are now or how old when they died,
- Medical history: whether they have had cancer or other diseases that can run in families (such as blood clots, heart attacks or diabetes),
- Age at diagnosis: at what age the disease first showed up.
If you don't know exactly, give your best guess.
Family health information is personal and private.
Your family medical history contains private health information, not only about you, but about others in your family. It is up to you to take steps to keep it safe, such as keeping copies or printouts in a safe place and not sharing your password.
Before you talk with relatives or show the family tree to them, consider that some people want certain information kept private. Think about how you feel and how your relatives may feel about sharing their own health information with other family members. Each family and each situation is different. If you aren't sure, before you share it with anyone, you could ask a family member if it is all right to include his or her health information on your family tree.
When you share family medical information with health care providers, they have a responsibility to keep your family history confidential, just like other parts of your medical record, and not to reveal it, even to other people in your family, without your permission. Tell your health care provider if there is specific, personal information that you do not want others to know.
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