The ordering physician may provide this counseling or the patient may be referred to another health professional qualified to provide cancer risk assessment and counseling. Click here for a list of Centers , by state, offering risk assessment and counseling services. You may also provide the patient with the pretest educational materials available from Myriad Genetic Laboratories. Click here to contact Myriad . Obtain informed consent.
Myriad requires that patient informed consent be obtained prior to testing.
After the clinician or counselor reviews the informed consent form with the patient, if the patient proceeds with testing, he or she would sign the informed consent form, to be kept in the patient's medical record. Click here for a printable version of the Myriad informed consent . Complete the Myriad Test Request Form. The test request form should include the ordering physician's address and signature. This report states whether a mutation was detected, and, if so, the specific mutation identified and its clinical interpretation.