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June 22, 2022
What Chris Evert’s Story Can Teach the World about Genetic Testing
by Ellen T. Matloff, MS, CGC; CEO, My Gene Counsel Tennis champion Chris Evert generously shared her family’s genetic testing story with the world last year, as Angelina Jolie did almost a decade before. Like Jolie’s story, Evert’s has the...
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Breast cancer risk for transgender men with inherited mutations
There is little information related to the risks and treatment options for transgender men and nonbinary people who are at high-risk for breast cancer due to an inherited BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. We review an...
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PARP inhibitor (niraparib) in patients with inherited or tumor PALB2 mutations in advanced solid tumors (PAVO)
PAVO is an open-label Phase II study investigating if the study drug, a PARP inhibitor called niraparib (Zejula), is safe and effective for certain people who have been diagnosed with an advanced solid tumor with...
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