We asked previvors on Twitter, “What would you like to say to the person on the fence about whether or not to have genetic testing?” Here’s what they had to say. It’s not painful. You’ll get so much out of it (the answer). You’re...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) provides guidelines to help determine who should have genetic testing for hereditary cancers and how individuals should be followed after testing. They recently published updates to these guidelines that we’ve...
October 2018 Update from Joanna Rudnick Twenty-eight years ago, Mary-Claire King discovered BRCA1 and its connection to familial breast cancer. Seventeen years ago, I learned I was BRCA1+. Ten years ago, my personal film on being BRCA+ and falling into the brave new...