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How Do the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work?
Pfizer and Moderna grabbed headlines, and ushered in hope, in announcing this month that each company has vaccines that preliminary data suggest being 90-94% effective in preventing COVID-19 infections. This news is a much-needed salve to a world that has surpassed...

Surgeon Recommends Mastectomy for Woman with RAD50 Mutation
A 42-year-old woman underwent a breast biopsy due to an abnormal mammogram. Even though the biopsy analysis yielded benign findings, the woman's family history with pancreatic cancer prompted the surgeon to order a 70-gene panel test to assess if she had inherited a...

Unnecessary Testing Identifies BRCA2 VUS in 16-Year-Old Girl
A gynecologist ordered genetic testing for a 16-year-old girl with an unspecified breast finding and a limited family history of cancer. Genetic testing detected a variant of unknown significance (VUS) in BRCA2. Since this patient had this breast finding, a...

NewHavenBiz.com: Matloff Revolutionizes Genetic Testing
Ellen Matloff, president and CEO of My Gene Counsel, has been described as an advocate and a visionary for her work in the field of genetic testing. "She's an advocate for patients, for genetic counselors, her team, and her community. She deeply cares for our team,...

Assuming All Labs Are Equal Gives False Reassurance of Risk
An oncologist began seeing a new patient – a woman who had previously had breast cancer, received genetic testing, and reported having a family history of cancer and Cowden syndrome. Based on this information, the oncologist referred her for genetic counseling. The...

MMRF CureCloud Study Launches to Democratize Access to Genomic Data in Multiple Myeloma
In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Hearn Jay Cho, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of MMRF and Associate Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital Ruttenberg Treatment Center and Irene M. Ghobrial, MD, Director of the Clinical...

MMRF Programs Aim to Boost Precision Med Knowledge, Access in Multiple Myeloma
If the goal is to enroll as many people as possible in a precision medicine program, the process has to be easy for patients, regardless of their condition, geographic location, or socioeconomic situation. That is the aim of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's...

The Importance of Genetic Counseling
Ellen Matloff, president and CEO of My Gene Counsel, was recently interviewed by Chené Murphy for DNAWeekly.com. What is the story behind founding My Gene Counsel? My co-founder, Danielle Bonadies, and I are genetic counselors who ran the Cancer Genetic Counseling...

Lynch Syndrome Patient Has Ovaries, Uterus Removed at Age 22
After seeing multiple members of a family with late-stage cancers at young ages, their oncologist suspected that these malignancies may be due to Lynch syndrome. The hereditary cancer syndrome is known to increase genetic risk for certain types of cancers. The mother...