Consultation "Prevention & Screening"
The consultation establishes a risk profile and a series of examinations and specialist consultations to be recommended.
- Consultation open to anyone, with or without a special cancer risk factor.
- High-quality, multidisciplinary personalised prevention and screening plan based on your risk profile.
- Organisation of a 'screening circuit' consisting of a series of examinations and specialist consultations.
- The results are centralised and forwarded to your attending physician(s).
- Objectives of afforability and transparency of costs.
1) First 'cancer screening' consultation:
- Standardised medical questionnaire.
- Medical history: personal and family medical history.
- Clinical examinations.
- Recommendations based on the risk profile.
- Duration of the consultation: 1 hour.
2) Screening circuit:
- Specialist consultations.
- Additional examinations.
- This circuit may take 1 to 2 days.
3) Second 'cancer screening' consultation:
- Announcement of the results. Depending on the results:
- Prevention advice.
- Recommendations for follow-up or treatment.
- Duration of the consultation: 1 hour.
4) The results are forwarded to the medical doctor(s) of your choice.
Medical doctor coordinating the Cancer Prevention & Screening Clinic: Dr Laurence Gordower
- Make an appointment: 02/434 81 15 - depistage.cancer@chirec.be
- Nurse coordinator: 02/434 17 45
12 prevention recommendations *
- Do not smoke or consume any other form of tobacco.
- Avoid passive exposure to tobacco, particularly in your workplace.
- Keep your weight stable.
- Engage in regular physical activity and avoid sitting down for too long.
- Eat healthy.
- Limit your consumption of alcohol.
- Avoid excessive exposure to the sun, use sunscreen and avoid using sunbeds.
- Protect yourself from carcinogens by following the health and safety instructions in your workplace.
- Check your exposure to radon gas emissions at home, and take action if necessary.
- For women: breastfeed if possible.
- Vaccinate your children against hepatitis B (newborns) and against the human papilloma virus (HPV) (teenage girls).
- Take part in organised programmes for screening of at least these 3 forms of cancer:
- colorectal cancer
- breast cancer
- cervical cancer