Skip to main content
. 2013 May 28;63(611):e393–e400. doi: 10.3399/bjgp13X668186
Question number Yes No
1 Do you think that there are any conditions or illnesses that run in your family? If so, please specify:________________
2 Have any of your close relatives, including parent(s), children, brother(s), or sister(s), had heart disease (also known as cardiovascular disease, heart attack, angina, bypass surgery) before the age of 60?
3 a Have any of your close relatives, including parent(s), children, brother(s), or sister(s), had diabetes (also known as type 2 diabetes or non-insulin-dependent diabetes)?
4 Do you come from any of the following ancestry? People from these backgrounds may be at increased risk of diabetes
  (a) South East Asia
  (b) Indian subcontinent, that is, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
5 Have any of your close male relatives, including father, son(s), or brother(s), had prostate cancer before the age of 60?
6 a Have any of your close female relatives, including mother, daughter(s), or sister(s), had ovarian cancer?
7 Have any of your close relatives, including parent(s), children, brother(s), or sister(s), had breast cancer before the age of 50?
8 a Do you have more than one relative who has had breast cancer on either your mother’s or father’s side of the family? Please think about all of the following relatives: parent(s), children, brother(s), sister(s), grandparent(s), aunt(s), uncle(s), niece(s), nephew(s), and grandchildren.
9   (a) Is your family of Jewish ancestry?
  (b) If so, are they from Eastern or Central Europe (Ashkenazi)?
People from these backgrounds may be at increased risk of breast cancer
10 a Have any of your close relatives, including parents(s), children, brother(s), or sister(s), had colon or rectal cancer (also known as large bowel or colorectal cancer) before the age of 55?
11 a Do you have more than one relative who has had colon or rectal cancer on either your mother’s or father’s side of the family?
Please think about all of the following relatives: parent(s), children, brother(s), sister(s), grandparent(s), aunt(s), uncle(s), niece(s), nephew(s), and grandchildren.
12 On either of your mother’s or father’s side of the family, thinking about the following relatives: parent(s), children, brother(s), sister(s), grandparent(s), aunt(s), uncle(s), niece(s), nephew(s), and grandchildren, do you have more than one relative who has had:
  (a) Any cancer?
  (b) Any of the following types of cancer: brain, kidney, thyroid, stomach, uterus/endometrial, pancreas?
a

Items included in FHQ–6, stage 2: validation stage.