On Monday afternoon we held a tweetchat, #GenCSM, with our amazing co-hosts Georgia Hurst and Amy Byer Shainman and special guest Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD. Sid is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, and his...
Genetic Counseling Note: People who have a mutation in one of their two CDH1 gene copies have a syndrome called Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC). This syndrome increases the risk of developing stomach cancer in men and women, lobular breast cancer in women,...
Photo credit to MLobliner via Flickr Pheochromocytomas are rare nervous system tumors that are usually benign and develop in the small glands that sit on top of the kidneys, called the adrenal glands. Everyone has two adrenal glands that produce hormones that travel...
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...
On Monday night we held a Tweetchat with our amazing co-hosts Georgia Hurst and Amy Byer Shainman and special guest Erica Ramos, Genetic Counselor at Illumina and President-Elect of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. Here are highlights from the exciting...