Posts Tagged ‘risk reduction’
VUS Reclassified to Suspected Deleterious: When Genetic Counseling Updates Become Lifesaving
Mary Ellen always knew that her family history included cancer. Her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in her fifties and died in her sixties. Early-onset breast cancer, prostate cancer, and possible ovarian cancers were seen in aunts, uncles, and cousins. So, it was not surprising that Mary Ellen’s sister was referred for genetic counseling…
Read MoreTweetChat: Lynch Syndrome And Other Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndromes
To conclude Lynch Syndrome and Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we held a tweetchat, #GenCSM, with our phenomenal co-hosts Georgia Hurst and Amy Byer Shainman and special guest Heather Hampel, MS, LGC. Hampel is a genetic counselor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research interests include screening all colorectal and endometrial cancer patients for Lynch…
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