No Follow-up on Insurer Denial Delays Cancer Risk Management

No Follow-up on Insurer Denial Delays Cancer Risk Management

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,...

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Digital Health Dominates Roaring Genomics Market

Digital Health Dominates Roaring Genomics Market

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...

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Speaking Genetics: A Glossary of Cancer Risk Genes

Speaking Genetics: A Glossary of Cancer Risk Genes

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 years, beginning with...

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Everyday Health’s Hereditary Cancer Risk Twitter Chat Recap

Everyday Health’s Hereditary Cancer Risk Twitter Chat Recap

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...

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Same Multigene Cancer Risk Panel Not Right for All

Same Multigene Cancer Risk Panel Not Right for All

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...

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BRCA1 Variant Downgraded After Risk-Reducing Surgery

BRCA1 Variant Downgraded After Risk-Reducing Surgery

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...

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Missed Clues Delay Peutz-Jeghers Diagnosis

Missed Clues Delay Peutz-Jeghers Diagnosis

A woman in her 40s had surgery to remove a gynecologic tumor. During the procedure, the surgeon noted that she had numerous polyps in her small intestine that may be causing it to undergo intussusception, meaning one section of bowel slides into the next. The surgeon...

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Consumer Genomics Reveals More Than Fun Traits

Consumer Genomics Reveals More Than Fun Traits

Around a decade ago, a psychologist in her mid-50s attended a wellness conference, where everyone was discussing a popular direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. The possibility of learning about the underlying genetics of her inherited traits piqued her...

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