During a routine gynecogical appointment, a young woman reported that her paternal grandmother, was diagnosed with early-onset breast cancer and still living. Based on this family history, the gynecologist ordered a genetic testing that included multiple genes to...
A 51-year-old female pursued genetic testing because she thought her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 30. After the testing was ordered by the patient’s gynecologist, the patient realized her mother actually had cervical cancer, not ovarian. The test...
A doctor told a 59-year-old patient that she may have Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL) due to a personal history of polyps and family history of gastrointestinal cancers. The patient met with a genetic counselor, who determined the patient did not have any features...
A 61-year old Jewish woman with a hematologic malignancy and a family history of breast cancer was referred to genetic counseling. As part of her work-up, the heme-onc had ordered somatic testing of the patient’s blood cancer, which revealed a TP53 variant at a high...
