A woman’s physician ordered multi-gene panel testing due to her family history of cancer and told her that the lab had found two “errors” in the PALB2 gene. Compared to the general population, patients with a pathogenic variant in PALB2 have between...
Ellen Matloff, MS, CGC is a certified genetic counselor and the President and CEO of My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides scalable, updating genetic counseling solutions. Matloff founded the Yale Cancer Genetic Counseling program, served as its...
The second stage of the genetic counseling graduate school application process is the interview. Programs invite selected candidates to visit the campus and interview with the faculty. This is an interview for the program as much as it is for the applicant. In the...
An oncologist referred an endometrial cancer patient to a genetic counselor because she was diagnosed at a young age – before age 50. The patient had already undergone surgical treatment before the oncologist referred her to a genetic counselor. After taking a...
This weekend, Chris Evert tweeted that she was diagnosed with early-stage (Stage 1C) ovarian cancer, which is associated with an outstanding survival rate. This news is especially good because most people diagnosed with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at stage III or IV,...
