Encourage your patient to self-examine and report any concerns to you. The public facing section of this campaign contains links to websites explaining how to do this.
If a patient has a family history of a confirmed genetic predisposition syndrome, have a low threshold to investigate any symptoms of cancer in them or their first degree relatives.
Encourage your patient to attend for screening. Patients with Lynch Syndrome should be invited for regular colonoscopies every two years. Patients with historical diagnosis that predate the introduction of this screening programme may not be aware of this. Ensure you ask your patients if they are being recalled for their bowel screening programme.
Any patients diagnosed with bowel, womb or ovarian cancer may be eligible for the Detect 2 study which is looking at doing genetic testing at home rather than within a traditional hospital based genomic counsellor model. If they are interested, ask them to speak to their consultant to see if they are eligible.