A 44-year-old woman with breast cancer came to see a surgeon to discuss risk-reducing surgical options. Three years earlier, she had also been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Now, because of her breast cancer diagnosis, the patient had come from a small,...
The leading healthcare and precision medicine companies are focused on commercial growth that relies on genome-driven personalization of healthcare, and for that, they are turning to digital health technology companies. The race to build a comprehensive suite of...
For some, it may seem like certain types of cancers “run in the family.” This can be due to shared behaviors or exposures that increase cancer risk, or an abnormal genetic change that’s passed down from generation to generation. Over the past 25...
Several things can run in the family, including an increased risk of developing cancer. Though it’s not exactly the cancer that gets passed down the family tree, but rather a gene mutation that is often the culprit in cases of inherited cancer, according to the...
A 60-year-old woman with breast cancer and a history of various cancers in her family came to see a genetic counselor to discuss genetic testing to guide her treatment and risk management. The woman also had two café-au-lait macules, a birthmark that can occur in...
A 27-year-old woman, who five years earlier had learned she harbored a pathogenic variant in the BRCA1 gene, was now considering removing her breasts and ovaries to reduce her risk for breast and ovarian cancer. She came to see a genetic counselor to discuss her...
