by Danielle Bonadies | May 23, 2023 | News
Meet the family rewriting the rules of Alzheimer’s disease! In her newest Forbes article, Ellen Matloff describes the groundbreaking study identifying potential protective genes for Alzheimer’s disease onset. The patient in question carried a mutation in a...
by Danielle Bonadies | May 20, 2023 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
A doctor told a 59-year-old patient that she may have Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL) due to a personal history of polyps and family history of gastrointestinal cancers. The patient met with a genetic counselor, who determined the patient did not have any features...
by Danielle Bonadies | Mar 7, 2023 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
A 61-year old Jewish woman with a hematologic malignancy and a family history of breast cancer was referred to genetic counseling. As part of her work-up, the heme-onc had ordered somatic testing of the patient’s blood cancer, which revealed a TP53 variant at a high...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jan 25, 2023 | News
After the overturning of Roe v. Wade 1 year ago, women living in states with restrictive abortion laws have struggled to access medication for conditions like Crohns, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Girls and women of childbearing age who are taking methotrexate for...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jan 23, 2023 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
A patient diagnosed with metastatic, poorly differentiated, stage IIIB invasive ductal, triple-negative breast cancer was not given pre- or post-test genetic counseling before undergoing genetic testing. After seeing another surgeon for bilateral mastectomy, the...
