A 24-year-old woman came to see a genetic counselor to discuss her inherited risk for breast cancer. She claimed she had undergone genetic testing at age 16 due to a strong history of breast cancers on her mother’s side of the family and had a pathogenic variant...
Many supposed breast cancer risk genes don’t raise risk, studies find By Marie McCullough for The Philadelphia Inquirer In the quarter century since the watershed discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2, dozens of other genes have been implicated in hereditary breast cancer. A...
As seen on The Washington Post and Kaiser Health News By Christina Bennett When her gynecologist recommended genetic testing, Mai Tran was reluctant. “I didn’t really want to do it,” recalled Tran, who had just turned 21 and was living in New...
Twenty years ago, a 45-year-old woman with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer went to see a dermatologist, who noted hyperpigmentation of her lips. The dermatologist clinically diagnosed her as having Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a rare genetic condition that often...
To date, more than 89 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed worldwide, with more than 1.9 million global deaths. In the United States, there have been more than 22 million cases and more than 372,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far. The rapid roll-out of multiple...
As seen on GenomeWeb.com: Digital health company My Gene Counsel on Tuesday said it is partnering with Genomet to improve precision cancer care by providing a digital decision support solution for clinicians that combines My Gene Counsel’s genetic counseling...