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How Much Does It Cost to Get Breast Cancer?
In mid-March 2020, the United States was hit with the Covid-19 pandemic and, for many of us, the world shut down. While we were worried about washing our hands, wiping down our grocery purchases, and avoiding a deadly virus, 32-year-old Caitlin had something else on...
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Doc Tells Patient with Familial Risks to Get DTC Testing
A woman experiencing joint and mobility issues turned to holistic medicine after feeling that her regular doctors weren't adequately addressing her health problems. In recounting her health history to a new doctor, she also shared that she was concerned about her...
The Medical Side Effect We Must Stop Ignoring: Financial Toxicity
A few months ago, two sisters published an essay in The New York Times about their genetic testing journey, which started because their mother was found to have a mutation in one of the BRCA genes. People who have a mutation in one of the BRCA genes are at increased...
Muddled Reporting, Interpretation of PALB2 VUS
A woman's physician ordered multi-gene panel testing due to her family history of cancer and told her that the lab had found two "errors" in the PALB2 gene. Compared to the general population, patients with a pathogenic variant in PALB2 have between a 20 percent and...
Meet the Expert Geneticist Who Fought Against Patenting Your BRCA Gene
Ellen Matloff, MS, CGC is a certified genetic counselor and the President and CEO of My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides scalable, updating genetic counseling solutions. Matloff founded the Yale Cancer Genetic Counseling program, served as its...
Myotonic Dystrophy Signs Missed in Uterine Cancer Patient
An oncologist referred an endometrial cancer patient to a genetic counselor because she was diagnosed at a young age – before age 50. The patient had already undergone surgical treatment before the oncologist referred her to a genetic counselor. After taking a...
Tennis Star Chris Evert Teaches Us That Genetic Testing Is a Lifetime Match
This weekend, Chris Evert tweeted that she was diagnosed with early-stage (Stage 1C) ovarian cancer, which is associated with an outstanding survival rate. This news is especially good because most people diagnosed with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at stage III or IV,...
Press Releases
My Gene Counsel Selected by Foundation for Prader-Willi Research to Enable Responsible Return of Results for Genome Sequencing Project
The Prader-Willi syndrome Genome Project will utilize My Gene Counsel's updating, digital genetic counseling reports to help research participants better understand their genetic test results. NEW HAVEN, CONN. (PRWEB) JUNE 24, 2021 My Gene Counsel, a digital health...
My Gene Counsel Partners with O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB to Boost Genetic Testing and Improve Precision Cancer Care
The digital solution will enable physician-initiated testing, greater clinical support, and better use of genetic counseling resources. NEW HAVEN, CONN. (PRWEB) MARCH 30, 2021 My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides innovative genetic counseling...
My Gene Counsel and Genomet Announce Product Partnership to Transform Cancer Care Around the Globe
With transformative digital technologies playing an increasingly critical role in health care delivery, the two companies have joined forces on a digital genomic solution that will increase efficiencies and outcomes within the highly specialized space of oncology. NEW...
Vanderbilt Selects My Gene Counsel to Partner on Large 5-Year NIH Grant
My Gene Counsel is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of South Florida on the highly innovative Improving Care After Inherited Cancer Testing (IMPACT) Study. This 5-year project will be supported by...
My Gene Counsel Partners with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation on Groundbreaking Genomic Study
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) is working to democratize healthcare for cancer patients today with the launch of CureCloud®, a first-of-its-kind, direct-to-patient research study, powered by genomic and clinical information from multiple myeloma...
My Gene Counsel Partners with UConn Health to Provide Expanded Genetic Counseling Services
Easy-to-understand genetic counseling reports will lead to more appropriate follow-up and better health outcomes. NEW HAVEN, CONN. (PRWEB) APRIL 16, 2020 More than 600 people undergo genetic counseling and testing each year as part of the Neag Comprehensive Cancer...
Multimedia
Genetic Testing Errors Negatively Impact Therapeutic Decision Making
In this episode, we continue our discussion with Meagan Farmer and Danielle Bonadies as we discuss how the Top Errors in Genetic Testing may be negatively affecting therapeutic decision making. We also discuss ways that life science companies may be able to...
Top Errors in Genetic Testing
In today's episode we take a look at some of the significant challenges and errors we are seeing in the use of genetic and genomic testing, as they become mainstreamed into our clinical treatment protocols. Today we highlight the Top Errors in Genetic Testing and how...
Genetic Testing: Leveraging Results to Identify Patients for New Therapies
In this episode of The Kinetix Group’s Healthcare Insights podcast, Danielle Bonadies, My Gene Counsel’s Director of Genetics, shares ideas about how to leverage genetic testing for clinical trial recruitment, as well as being able to quickly identify patients who might benefit from a new therapy.
Genetic Testing: Managing Updates to Medical Management and Risk Profiling
In this episode of The Kinetix Group’s Healthcare Insights podcast, Danielle Bonadies, My Gene Counsel’s Director of Genetics, shares the results of a recent study that suggests just how much patients and providers may be struggling to keep up with the latest genetic updates.
NSGC 2021 Poster Presentation Video
Exponential growth is occurring in clinical genomics. A patient found to have a pathogenic variant 10 years ago has likely lived through dozens of updates to risk estimates and management guidelines related to that diagnosis.
Genetic Counseling Webinar September 2021
Given the rapid and numerous developments in the field of genetics, there is a growing demand for genetic counselors in nearly every area of medicine, as well as a need for students that represent all of us. This includes people of color, men, members of the LGBTQIA+...