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W2113831855 abstract "Most common chronic diseases are the result of complex interactions between multiple genetic variants and environmental factors. Despite significant advances in the last decade in the understanding of our genome, there are substantial limitations in epidemiological and analytic approaches to studying the effects of genetic determinants of common chronic diseases. Knowledge of genetic variation underlying disease susceptibility should improve our ability to diagnose, manage, and prevent these disorders. To date, however, DNA-based testing is limited for the most part to analysis of highly penetrant single gene disorders that account for approximately 5% of the total disease burden in the population.1.Yoon P.W. Chen B. Faucett A. Clyne M. Gwinn M. Lubin I.M. Burke W. Khoury M.J. The public health impact of genetic tests at the end of the 20th century.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3MnmvVyltg%3D%3D10.1097/00125817-200111000-00005Genet Med. 2001; 3: 405-410Google Scholar,2.Rimoin DL, Connor JM, Pyeritz RE, editors. Principles and practices of medical genetics, 3rd ed. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1997: 31.Google Scholar It may be years before DNA-based tests are routinely applied to predict the onset of common diseases, their natural history, and response to therapy. In the absence of genetic testing, we postulate that family history can be used as a tool to stratify risk for common chronic diseases and thereby identify individuals with increased disease susceptibility. Could disease information about people's close relatives be used to predict their risk for specific diseases? And, if this can be done with some degree of reliability, would individuals who may be at above average risk benefit from targeted prevention and screening programs beyond what is recommended for the population at large, including DNA-based testing? Further, would individuals found by family history to be at increased risk be more accepting of recommendations about lifestyle changes and participation in heightened early detection and prevention strategies? The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of family history as a public health tool for risk stratification leading to improved disease prevention and to describe an evaluation process that would be necessary to determine the feasibility, validity, and utility of this approach. Family history of specific diseases reflects the consequences of genetic susceptibilities, shared environment, and common behaviors. The scope of family history information ranges from knowing a parent or sibling had a specific disease to very detailed pedigree analyses about disease and age at onset for first-, second-, and even third-degree relatives. In some families, highly penetrant genetic mutations are transmitted through generations, resulting in a high likelihood of disease. Breast cancer associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations is an example of inherited susceptibility where the disease risk is high.3.Hedenfalk I. Duggan D. Chen Y. Radmacher M. Bittner M. Simon R. Meltzer P. Gusterson B. Esteller M. Kallioniemi O.P. Wilfond B. Borg A. Trent J. Gene-expression profiles in hereditary breast cancer.1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3MXhsFGks7o%3D10.1056/NEJM200102223440801N Engl J Med. 2001; 344: 539-548Google Scholar Fortunately, these deleterious gene mutations are rare in the population. For the majority of families, genetic susceptibility is transmitted through many low penetrant genes that interact with environmental factors to increase the risk for disease. For example, an increasing number of studies are showing that polymorphisms for genes that code for carcinogen metabolizing enzymes (e.g., NAT2 and MGMT) can increase the risk of cancer.4.Ishibe N. Kelsey K.T. Genetic susceptibility to environmental occupational cancers.1:STN:280:DyaK1c7ktFWmtw%3D%3D10.1023/A:1018421724776Cancer Causes Control. 1997; 8: 504-513Google Scholar The difficulty of applying genetic tests of such polymorphisms to predict future disease is that each gene variant accounts for only a small increase in risk. Thus, these polymorphisms serve as poor screening tools for predicting disease risk within the general population.5.Rockhill B. Kawachi I. Colditz G.A. Individual risk prediction population-wide disease prevention.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M%2FnsVSjsQ%3D%3D10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a018017Epidemiol Rev. 2000; 22: 176-180Google Scholar However, testing for these polymorphisms in individuals with a family history of disease could further refine risk, because familial clustering of disease typically reflects multifactorial inheritance in which susceptibility is determined by the combined effects of a number of genes interacting with environmental and lifestyle factors. Family history has been shown to be a risk factor for a majority of chronic diseases of public health significance, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, several cancers, osteoporosis, and asthma (Table 1). Most early cardiovascular-related events (coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes) in the population occur in families with a positive family history of cardiovascular disease.6.Williams R.R. Hunt S.X. Heiss G. Province M.A. Bensen J.T. Higgins M. Chamberlain R.M. Ware J. Hopkins P.N. Usefulness of cardiovascular family history data for population-based preventive medicine medical research (the Health Family Tree Study the NHLBI Family Health Study).1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M7gvVyhtg%3D%3D10.1016/S0002-9149(00)01303-5Am J Cardiol. 2001; 87: 129-135Google Scholar The late Dr. Roger Williams and his colleagues conducted extensive studies on the use of family history information for predicting future risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). In a large cohort in Utah, they found that having two or more first-degree relatives with CHD identified 8% of the population with relative risks of 3.3 to 5.9 for CHD before age 50.7.Hunt S.C. Williams R.R. Barlow G.K. A comparison of positive family history definitions for defining risk of future disease.1:STN:280:DyaL2s%2FgvVyksw%3D%3D10.1016/0021-9681(86)90083-4J Chronic Dis. 1986; 39: 809-821Google Scholar Generally, family history of a common, chronic disease is associated with relative risks ranging from 2 to 5 times those of the general population.8.King RA, Rotter JI, Motulsky AG, editors. 1992.Google Scholar Even greater increase in relative risk is associated with an increasing number of affected relatives and earlier ages of disease onset.Table 1Prevalence and relative risk estimates due to family history for selected diseases Open table in a new tab Evidence suggests that family history by itself is most useful for predicting disease when there are multiple family members affected, the relationship among relatives is close, and disease is premature, that is, it occurs at younger ages than would be expected.9.Scheuner M.T. Wang S.J. Raffel L.J. Larabell S.K. Rotter J.I. Family history: a comprehensive genetic risk assessment method for the chronic conditions of adulthood.1:STN:280:DyaK2svhtF2ruw%3D%3D10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970822)71:3<315::AID-AJMG12>3.0.CO;2-NAm J Med Genet. 1997; 71: 315-324Google Scholar Although these characteristics of family history can identify people at high risk for disease, they are not typical of the majority of people with chronic disease in the population. Of interest is whether a less extreme family history could be useful as a public health tool for identifying a larger proportion of the population who is at moderate risk for disease. A number of methods have been proposed for quantifying the risk associated with family history of disease. Hunt and colleagues developed a family history score that compares a family's age- and sex-specific disease incidence to that expected in the general population and predicts future disease incidence in unaffected family members.7.Hunt S.C. Williams R.R. Barlow G.K. A comparison of positive family history definitions for defining risk of future disease.1:STN:280:DyaL2s%2FgvVyksw%3D%3D10.1016/0021-9681(86)90083-4J Chronic Dis. 1986; 39: 809-821Google Scholar Scheuner and colleagues proposed a classification system that stratifies risk into three groups: high, moderate, and average (general population risk) (Table 2). This classification took into consideration the age of onset of a disease, the number of affected relatives, and their relationship to the patient. Family history data were collected on 400 healthy individuals for 8 chronic conditions: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer. Most individuals had an average (general population) risk for these disorders, but approximately 5% to 15% of the people were at moderate risk and 1% to 10% were at high risk.9.Scheuner M.T. Wang S.J. Raffel L.J. Larabell S.K. Rotter J.I. Family history: a comprehensive genetic risk assessment method for the chronic conditions of adulthood.1:STN:280:DyaK2svhtF2ruw%3D%3D10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970822)71:3<315::AID-AJMG12>3.0.CO;2-NAm J Med Genet. 1997; 71: 315-324Google Scholar Silberberg and colleagues reviewed the literature on the methodology used to calculate family history scores for coronary heart disease.10.Silberberg J. Fryer J. Wlodarczyk J. Robertson R. Dear K. Comparison of family history measures used to identify high risk of coronary heart disease.1:STN:280:DyaK1M3isVWhsQ%3D%3D10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1999)16:4<344::AID-GEPI2>3.0.CO;2-QGenet Epidemiol. 1999; 16: 344-355Google Scholar They evaluated 15 published scores according to several desirable properties of family history scores for common diseases—a score should: a) consider the risk profile of the family (taking into account covariates, such as age, sex, smoking status); b) be robust to family size and time at risk; c) consider relationship of the relatives (close relatives being given more weight); and d) not be inflated by a single individual. The authors concluded that all of the published scores performed similarly in distinguishing cases and controls and that all formulations were disadvantaged to the same extent. They recommended that researchers consider characteristics of their data before selecting any particular score formulation and that if families are small and affected relatives are few, categorical definitions or simple counts are likely to be adequate.Table 2Suggested guidelines for risk stratification based on family history Open table in a new tab Family history has been recognized in clinical medicine as an important, yet nonmodifiable, disease risk factor that when present might influence the probability of a suspected diagnosis. Collection and interpretation of family history has rarely been applied in the practice of preventive medicine to assess disease risk and influence early detection and prevention strategies. In this setting, pedigree analysis has primarily been limited to rare cases of cancer or cardiovascular disease where a strong genetic component is obvious. Even when there is a strong family history, many of these high-risk people who could benefit from a genetic evaluation are missed by their primary care physicians.11.Hayflick S.J. Eiff M.P. Carpenter L. Steinberger J. Primary care physician's utilization perceptions of genetic services.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M7lvF2jtQ%3D%3D10.1097/00125817-199811000-00005Genet Med. 1998; 1: 13-22Google Scholar People at moderate-risk based on family history are even less likely to be identified. Henderson and Scheuner report on a study of managed care members where 53 charts from 15 primary care physicians selected randomly were reviewed for family history.12.Henderson L.B. Scheuner M.T. Suboptimal family history collection: an obstacle to genetic risk assessment prevention.Am J Hum Genet. 1998; 63: A240Google Scholar This included data collected from 223 patient visits (4.2 visits per patient) that occurred over a 5-year period. Among the charts reviewed, 39 belonged to subjects who gave self-reports of a family history of at least one common disease; the physician recorded this family history in only 36%. The number of first-degree relatives that were reported by patients as having one of the conditions under study was 115, compared with only 23 recorded by the physician. The corresponding number of self-reported affected second-degree relatives was 213, and the physicians recorded only 4. The type of disease did not influence the family history recorded by the physician. Acheson et al.13.Acheson L.S. Wiesner G.L. Zyzanski S.J. Goodwin M.A. Stange K.C. Family history-taking in community family practice: implications for genetic screening.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M7pslaitA%3D%3D10.1097/00125817-200005000-00004Genet Med. 2000; 2: 180-185Google Scholar have found that family practice physicians discuss family history about half of the time during new patient visits, and only 22% of the time during established patient visits. This included discussion of “family issues” that might represent a broad range of topics in addition to medical issues. The quality of information collected was likely limited (although this was not determined) because the average duration of family history discussions was < 2.5 minutes. Only 11% of patients' records included a family tree. If it can be shown that family history can aid in risk stratification, improve early detection and disease prevention, and influence health promoting behaviors, then family history could be used as a screening tool to find high- and moderate-risk people who would benefit from more targeted interventions. Individuals and families could be encouraged to maintain their own family health histories and share that information with their clinicians who should also be tracking and updating their patients' family health histories. Keeping a record of family medical history could be as routine as keeping a child's immunization schedule. Some have argued, however, that placing people in risk groups may lead those in the “average population risk group” to become complacent about health promoting behaviors.14.Marteau T.M. Lerman C. Genetic risk behavior change.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3MzgvFelsw%3D%3D10.1136/bmj.322.7293.1056Br Med J. 2001; 322: 1056-1059Google Scholar The population-wide approach seeks to convince all people to modify their unhealthy exposures and increase health-promoting behaviors.15.Perera F.P. Environment cancer: who is susceptible?.1:CAS:528:DyaK2sXnt1Wisbs%3D10.1126/science.278.5340.1068Science. 1997; 278: 1068-1073Google Scholar It is thought that some people will benefit more than others, but the overall shift in the population will be toward better health. However, most people also appreciate individual differences in disease susceptibility. Prescribing a generic prevention program that does not recognize differences could lead to limited results, discouragement, and noncompliance. Targeting higher risk people for prevention efforts that would be cost-prohibitive at the population level, such as referral for genetic consultation and testing, earlier or more frequent screening, removal from environmental or occupational risk factors, or the use of medications, could prove to be cost-effective.16.Rose G. The strategy of preventive medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Google Scholar Would individualizing risk empower people at above average risk to seek medical advice and to practice healthy behaviors? Certainly, it could be argued that our current public health approaches to promoting healthy lifestyles that are targeted to the population-at-large have not been entirely successful. Recent studies reveal that 61% of Americans are overweight, 23% of people still smoke, and only 25% of adults engage in recommended physical activity levels.17.National Center for Health Statistics, Health-E Stat: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm, 1999.Google Scholar, 18.Eberhardt MS, Ingram DD, Makuc DM, et al. Urban and rural health chartbook: health, United States 2001. Hyattsville, MD: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2001.Google Scholar, 19.Centers for Disease Control, Prevention. Physical activity trends: United States, 1990–1998. MMWR 2001; 50: 166–169.Google Scholar And the prevalence of obesity and diabetes are increasing in the United States.18.Eberhardt MS, Ingram DD, Makuc DM, et al. Urban and rural health chartbook: health, United States 2001. Hyattsville, MD: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2001.Google Scholar If people could be convinced on a more personal level of their need to improve their health based on a family history of chronic disease (and almost all of us have some family history of disease), they may be more likely to engage in healthy behaviors. From a public health perspective, there could be additional benefits. Because many lifestyle choices and behaviors that reduce risk are similar across a wide variety of chronic conditions, there may be a spillover effect where risk is reduced simultaneously for a number of conditions. To be useful in public health settings, a family history tool must be simple, easily applied, and inexpensive. Family history has been shown to be a risk factor in many case-control studies (see Table 1), but a systematic evaluation of disease-specific family history information for disease risk stratification and prediction has not been done. A singular family history tool could include a number of common chronic diseases and conditions. Criteria for inclusion of diseases would include the accuracy with which the disease could be recalled, the prevalence of the disease in the population, the risk associated with family history, and the availability of effective early detection and prevention measures. Before family history can be embraced as a public health screening strategy, a number of critical issues should be addressed. The evaluation of a family history tool would not be that different from the evaluation of predictive genetic tests. In 2000, the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing (SACGT) recommended a process for assessing the benefits and risks for genetic tests.20.Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing. Request for public comment on a proposed classification methodology for determining level of review for genetic tests. Fed Reg 2000; 65: 76643–76645.Google Scholar The four components included analytic validity, clinical validity, clinical utility, and ethical, legal, and social issues that influence both validity and utility. The SACGTs recommendations were intended primarily to enhance the way in which genetic tests are developed, reviewed, and used in clinical practice. Likewise, the purpose for a similar evaluation of a family history tool would be to determine the accuracy and reliability of the tool for stratifying disease risk and the effectiveness of this risk stratification on early detection and prevention efforts. Analytic validity addresses how accurately and reliably the tool identifies disease among a person's relatives. The specific elements of analytic validity include sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity is a measure of how well the family history tool identifies relatives who truly have the disease of interest, and specificity is a measure of how well the tool identifies the relatives who truly do not have the disease of interest. A few studies have attempted to measure the sensitivity and specificity of family history instruments by interviewing relatives and conducting medical record reviews. The validity of the instrument used to collect family history in the Utah study of CHD showed 77% sensitivity and 85% specificity.7.Hunt S.C. Williams R.R. Barlow G.K. A comparison of positive family history definitions for defining risk of future disease.1:STN:280:DyaL2s%2FgvVyksw%3D%3D10.1016/0021-9681(86)90083-4J Chronic Dis. 1986; 39: 809-821Google Scholar In a validation study of family history of diabetes, there was complete agreement between information about diabetic status reported by patients in a clinic and the information given by respective relatives in a follow-up interview.21.Kahn L.B. Marshall J.A. Baxter J. Shetterly S.M. Hamman R.F. Accuracy of reported family history of diabetes mellitus: results from San Luis Valley Diabetes Study.1:STN:280:DyaK3czltlSmtA%3D%3D10.2337/diacare.13.7.796Diabetes Care. 1990; 13: 796Google Scholar Disease that occurs at earlier ages and results in more severe morbidity will likely be reported more accurately than disease that occurs late in life and is less severe. Diseases for which there may be some stigma, such as schizophrenia or alcoholism, may be reported less reliably. The setting for the collection of family history information will also affect analytic validity. A take-home questionnaire that will allow individuals to confer with relatives or review family records will likely be more accurate than an interview that occurs on the spot. The evaluation of the analytic validity of a family history instrument should involve comparisons with some gold standard, such as can be done with medical records or direct interviews with living relatives. It should also include an assessment of the specific diseases included in the tool, the relationship of the relatives included (first- and second-degree), and the settings in which the tool is administered. Clinical validity addresses how well family history of disease can be used to stratify disease risk and predict future disease in a person. The specific elements of clinical validity include sensitivity, specificity, and negative and positive predictive value. Like predictive genetic testing, a family history tool is used to estimate the probability that a person will develop disease. With highly penetrant gene mutations such as the one that causes Huntington disease, a positive genetic test results in near 100% certainty that a person will develop the disease. For many other diseases where the causative genes are less penetrant, a positive test means that there is an increased probability of disease but that development of disease may be influenced by other genes and environmental factors. Likewise with a positive family history, a person may be at increased risk for disease above that of the population at large, but the interaction of genetic and environmental factors will ultimately determine whether or not the person develops disease. In designing a family history tool that is useful in public health settings, there will be a trade-off between keeping it simple and collecting enough information to make prediction possible. A simple tool may not be able to distinguish between high and moderate risk. Issues that will need to be considered and evaluated include the collection of information on more than first-degree relatives, the list of diseases included in the tool, and the use of a classification system or algorithm for defining level of risk. When a person is adopted or has few relatives, the possibility of a family history rich in disease-specific information is obviously much reduced. The collection of family history information will also have to be evaluated in the context of additional screening information. Family history may have a synergistic effect in the presence of other known risk factors. For example, in a study of pancreatic cancer, the relative risk of pancreatic cancer associated with having a first-degree family member with pancreatic cancer was 2.49 (95% CI, 1.32–4.69), which was similar to the relative risk associated with ever smoking, 2.04 (95% CI, 1.09–3.83). The relative risk increased to 8.23 (95% CI, 2.18–31.07) for persons who ever smoked and who had a family member with pancreatic cancer diagnosed before age 60.22.Schenk M. Schwartz A.G. O'Neal E. Kinnard M. Greenson J.K. Fryzek J.P. Ying G.S. Garabrant D.H. Familial risk of pancreatic cancer.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M3hvFejug%3D%3D10.1093/jnci/93.8.640J Natl Cancer Inst. 2001; 93: 640-644Google Scholar Measuring the sensitivity and specificity of family history can be done using data from case-control or large cohort studies. Sensitivity can be estimated by examining the family history for a particular disease among a population-based group of people with that disease. Likewise, specificity can be estimated by examining family history for a particular disease among a population-based group of people without the disease. The positive predictive value can then be determined to provide information on the probability that a person will develop disease given a positive family history. Conversely, negative predictive value is the probability that people will not develop disease if they have a negative family history. Unlike sensitivity and specificity, the positive and negative predictive values of a family history tool depend on the prevalence rate of the disease in the population. If the prevalence of a disease is low, even a highly valid tool will yield a low predictive value. Establishing the clinical validity of family history tools will require research involving the use of the tools in different population groups. It will also require careful consideration of potential reporting bias in case-control studies. Affected people (cases) may be more likely to report a positive family history than are unaffected people (controls), resulting in an overestimate of predictive value. Reporting bias is also an issue that affects the assessment of analytic validity. Although the impact of differential recall on the results of case-control studies has been examined in general,23.Drews C.D. Greeenland S. The impact of differential recall on the results of case-control studies.1:STN:280:DyaK3M7pt12qsw%3D%3D10.1093/ije/19.4.1107Int J Epidemiol. 1990; 19: 1107-1112Google Scholar few studies have assessed potential bias associated with family history and estimates of risk for specific disease.24.Silberberg J.S. Wlodarczyk J. Fryer J. Ray C.D. Hensley M.J. Correction for biases in a population-based study of family history coronary heart disease: the Newcastle Family History Study I.1:STN:280:DyaK1czgslOhsA%3D%3D10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009410Am J Epidemiol. 1998; 147: 1123-1132Google Scholar The contribution of family history to disease risk has traditionally been assessed in terms of relative risk; however, the attributable risk may be a better indicator of the utility of family history information. The population attributable risk is an estimate of the incidence of disease in a population that is associated with exposure to the risk factor, in this case, family history.25.Last JM, editor. A dictionary of epidemiology, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1995: 126.Google Scholar To be useful for individuals, risk estimates from epidemiological studies need to be described in terms of absolute risk. People are more likely to understand their own probability of developing disease given certain risk factors than they are the relative or attributable risk of disease. These concepts are illustrated in Table 3, where risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) is classified into three groups: 1) average risk (no first-degree relative with CRC), 2) moderate risk (a first-degree relative with CRC after age 50), and 3) high risk (two first-degree relatives with CRC regardless of age). The risk estimates for the average and moderate risk categories were obtained from analysis by Fuchs et al.26.Fuchs C.S. Giovannucci E.L. Colditz G.A. Hunter D.J. Speizer F.E. Willett W.C. A prospective study of family history the risk of colorectal cancer.1:STN:280:DyaK2M%2FlvFehtg%3D%3D10.1056/NEJM199412223312501N Engl J Med. 1994; 331: 1669-1674Google Scholar of the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Study. The risk estimates for the high-risk group are presented as a range and were obtained from a population-based study in the United Kingdom27.Sandhu M.S. Luben Khaw K.T. Prevalence family history of colorectal cancer: implications for screening.1:STN:280:DC%2BD38%2Fitlyltg%3D%3D10.1136/jms.8.2.69J Med Screen. 2001; 8: 69-72Google Scholar and a review of the genetics of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).28.Bodmer W. Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) its gene, APC.1:CAS:528:DyaK1MXnsFGhsLw%3D10.1159/000015360Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1999; 86: 99-104Google Scholar Individuals presenting with a family history of CRC in the high-risk category may be at risk of disease of unknown origin or one of several high-risk syndromes, including FAP and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC).29.Lynch Henry T. Lynch Jane F. Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c3ms1Cktw%3D%3D10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(200006)18:4<305::AID-SSU5>3.0.CO;2-ASeminars in Surgical Oncology. 2000; 18: 305-313Google Scholar People carrying an APC gene mutation for FAP are virtually certain to develop CRC (absolute risk approaching 1), usually by their mid-30s; yet FAP is rare (prevalence approximately 1/8000) and accounts for a very small share of CRC in the population (attributable fraction <1%). A moderate family history of CRC, on the other hand, results in an absolute lifetime risk of about 6% for the individual, and perhaps 7% of CRC in the population. Unfortunately, the data for these risk estimates that describe the impact of family history on disease occurrence are not available for many of the diseases listed in Table 1. There are case-control studies that have compared the prevalence of family history between case and control groups, but population-based data are needed to calculate the absolute and attributable risks. Models based on population data, including family history, have been developed for risk prediction, such as the Gail and Claus models used to estimate lifetime risk for breast cancer.30.Gail M.H. Brinton L.A. Byar D.P. Corle D.K. Green S.B. Schairer C. Mulvihill J.J. Projecting individualized probabilities of developing breast cancer for white females who are being examined annually.1:STN:280:DyaK3c%2FnvF2kuw%3D%3D10.1093/jnci/81.24.1879J Natl Cancer Inst. 1989; 81: 1879-1886Google Scholar,31.Claus E.B. Risch N. Thompson W.D. Autosomal dominant inheritance of early-onset breast cancer: implication for risk prediction.1:STN:280:DyaK2c7jtVagug%3D%3D10.1002/1097-0142(19940201)73:3<643::AID-CNCR2820730323>3.0.CO;2-5Cancer. 1994; 73: 643-651Google ScholarTable 3Risk estimates for colorectal cancer for three risk groups as defined by family history Open table in a new tab Clinical utility is an assessment of the impact and usefulness of the family history tool for individuals, families, and society. Perhaps the most important issue is whether family history information can be used as a motivator to change behavior. Given a tool that has reasonable analytic and clinical validity, would the classification of individuals into risk groups improve the effectiveness of available early detection methods and interventions? Are public health interventions more effective if they are targeted to high-risk groups? Are individuals more motivated to improve their health if they know they may be at higher risk than the average population? Would individuals in the average-risk groups become complacent and less likely to engage in healthy behaviors? Studies of behavior change have shown that just telling people that they are at risk of developing a disease is rarely sufficient to change behavior.32.Leventhal H. Benyamini Y. Brownlee S. Illness representations: theoretical foundations.Perceptions of health and illness. 1997; (Amsterdam: Harwood)Google Scholar Marteau and Lerman propose that people's motivation to change behavior may be increased if they believe that changing behavior can reduce risks and that they have the ability to change.14.Marteau T.M. Lerman C. Genetic risk behavior change.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3MzgvFelsw%3D%3D10.1136/bmj.322.7293.1056Br Med J. 2001; 322: 1056-1059Google Scholar A recent study of colorectal cancer found that a strong family history of cancer was associated with better adherence to sigmoidoscopy recommendations.33.Codori A.M. Petersen G.M. Miglioretti D.L. Boyd P. Health beliefs endoscopic screening for colorectal cancer: potential for cancer prevention.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3Mvks1ykuw%3D%3D11493046Prev Med. 2001; 33: 128-136Google Scholar And analysis of the Framingham Offspring Study found that mammography use was higher among women with a family history of breast cancer compared with women without a family history.34.Murabito J.M. Evans J.C. Larson M.G. Kreger B.E. Splansky G.L. Freund K.M. Moskowitz M.A. Wilson P.W. Family breast cancer history mammography.1:STN:280:DC%2BD3MnmvVaisw%3D%3D10.1093/aje/154.10.916Am J Epidemiol. 2001; 154: 916-923Google Scholar More studies like these are needed to measure the extent to which knowledge of family history can influence beliefs and health promoting behaviors to prevent common chronic diseases. In addition to assessing the effect that knowledge of disease risk may have on people, there are ethical considerations that must be evaluated as well. Labeling a person as high- or moderate-risk for disease may have important psychological, social, and economic costs. The use of a family history tool for public health purposes could only be successful if people perceived greater benefit than risk associated with revealing family medical information, if there was no stigma associated with being at above average risk, and if there were interventions and options for behavior change that could make a difference in reducing morbidity and mortality. These characteristics of family history of disease will need to be evaluated for each disease that may be included in a family history tool and for different population and cultural groups. Francis Collins has described a scenario in the year 2010 where a primary care physician could offer a healthy 23-year-old male patient a DNA screening test that would provide estimated lifetime and relative risks for developing certain common chronic diseases.35.Collins F.S. Shattuck lecture: medical societal consequences of the Human Genome Project.1:STN:280:DyaK1M3psVelug%3D%3D10.1056/NEJM199907013410106N Engl J Med. 1999; 341: 28-37Google Scholar If it was discovered that the person carried a genotype for a carcinogen metabolizing enzyme, for example, that put him at increased risk for lung cancer, then the patient could be encouraged to stop smoking or never start. An analogous risk profile could be developed based on family history information. Unlike a DNA-based test that may not be available until 2010 or later for establishing individual risk profiles, family history tools are available now." @default.
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