by Danielle Bonadies | Oct 22, 2020 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
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...
by Danielle Bonadies | Sep 9, 2020 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
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...
by Danielle Bonadies | Aug 6, 2020 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
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...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jul 24, 2020 | News
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...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jul 1, 2020 | Genetic Testing Challenges in Oncology, News
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...
