{"id":84658,"date":"2025-10-16T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:10:07","slug":"mercy-to-offer-genetic-testing-identifying-individual-family-cancer-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84658\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy to offer genetic testing identifying individual, family cancer risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Mercy Health Systems is now offering qualifying patients genetic testing to identify cancer risks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Mercy has announced that its Center for Precision Medicine is launching a screening tool to help identify if someone has a high risk of certain cancers. This marks Mercy as one of the first health systems to provide a widespread screening program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Mercy is working with the testing company Tempus to provide testing for both DNA mutations and hereditary risk factors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">With patient screening and family history considered, if a person is deemed high risk, they are offered a blood draw test covering 77 genes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Based on results, a doctor may recommend:<\/p>\n<p>Increased cancer screeningRisk reduction measures to help reduce the likelihood of a cancer developingSpecific treatments or medications to help treat or prevent cancerTesting for family members<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Mercy Health Systems is now offering qualifying patients genetic testing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[11986,54629,254,103,396,61,60,54628,342,47924,82,31138,25053],"class_list":{"0":"post-84658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-area","9":"tag-first-alert-4","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kmov","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-mercy","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-st-louis","20":"tag-stl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}