{"id":229938,"date":"2025-10-16T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:24:08","slug":"mercy-to-offer-genetic-testing-identifying-individual-family-cancer-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229938\/","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":229939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[14854,74736,200,97,253,74735,3729,121014,79,7645,74742],"class_list":["post-229938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-area","tag-first-alert-4","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-kmov","tag-local","tag-mercy","tag-science","tag-st-louis","tag-stl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}