Cancer Genetics Clinic
Whether it’s a child, a parent, or a sibling, cancer effects the whole family. Our team is here to help families understand current pediatric and adolescent cancer diagnoses and learn more about predisposition or potential risks of developing cancers from a relative’s diagnosis.
At Nationwide Children’s, a multidisciplinary team has developed an approach to provide a personalized screening and treatment that helps identify children who may have a condition or family history that increases their chance of receiving a cancer diagnosis.
Because of the individualized factors involved in cancer risk, screening, and treatment, we work to develop unique treatment and monitoring plans for each patient and their family so we can help your patients stay healthy long into the future.
This approach allows our Hematology/Oncology/BMT team to:
- Identify patients at risk for inherited cancer predisposition.
- Offer genetic risk assessment, counseling and testing when appropriate.
- Develop individualized surveillance and management plans.
- Provide a venue for discussing targeted therapies (available clinically or on a research basis).
- Offer specialized psychosocial consultation to address the family impact of genetic testing and hereditary cancer.
Our team includes oncologists, psychologists, and genetic counselors whose expertise is individualized care in pediatrics.
Susan I. Colace
Susan Colace, MD, is the Medical Director of the Cancer Genetics Clinic as well as the Co-Director of the Program for Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenomics in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Blood and Marrow Transplant at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
If you are concerned about you or your child’s risk of cancer, you should discuss your concerns with your primary health care provider. If additional testing or screening is needed, they can refer you to the appropriate cancer genetics program.
At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, cancer genetic counseling services can be reached by calling (614) 722-3695.
Referral Information for Physicians
Clinic is available on the 3rd and 5th Monday afternoons of each month on Floor H11A at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s main campus.
Patients can be scheduled through an EPIC order by searching “Cancer Predisposition Clinic.”
Physician Direct Connect Line: (614) 355-0221 or 1-877-355-0221
To fax a referral directly, please send to (614) 722-8826
Diagnoses Seen In Clinic
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome
- Bloom Syndrome
- Carney Complex
- Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency
- DICER1 Syndrome
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)
- Familial Paraganglioma/ Pheochromocytoma Syndrome
- Hereditary Melanoma
- Hereditary Neuroblastoma
- Hyperparathyroid-jaw Tumor Syndrome
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
- Lynch Syndrome
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes
- Neurofibromatosis Type 1
- Neurofibromatosis Type 2
- Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome
- Noonan Syndrome
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS)
- PTEN Hamartoma Syndrome
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhabdoid Tumor Predisposition Syndrome
- Von Hippel Lindau Disease (VHL)
- Wilms' Tumor