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My Gene Counsel Quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer
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...
My Gene Counsel Quoted in Washington Post and Kaiser Health News
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 York, "but she kept...
Peutz-Jeghers Misdiagnosis Causes Medical, Family Confusion
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...
Should I Get a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine? Your Questions Answered.
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...
My Gene Counsel, Genomet Develop Decision Support Solution for Precision Cancer Care
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 reports...
Woman Without High Breast Cancer Risk Recommended Surgery
A woman in her mid-40s without a personal history of cancer came to see a breast surgeon due to her family history of breast cancer and a sister who was "BRCA positive." The surgeon ordered a large pan-cancer multigene panel, which revealed she had two variants of...
What Are the Long-Term Safety Risks of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines?
On Friday evening, December 18, 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, joining Pfizer's previously approved vaccine in the fight against COVID-19. In previous articles, I discussed how...
Is the COVID-19 Vaccine Safe?
On Friday, December 12, 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued its first Emergency Use Authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA's approval of this vaccine, developed by Pfizer, followed recent approvals of the same vaccine by the UK, Canada,...
BRCA2-Positive Healthy Young Man Recommended Mastectomy
A 20-year-old man came in to see a surgeon and get genetic testing based on a history of breast cancer and a pathogenic BRCA2 variant in the family. The man's mother, who accompanied him to see the surgeon, had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her late 20s and had...