Michelle Wilson was dealt an unexpected hand: Her father had breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the lifetime risk for men is one in 1,000. In 2006, Michelle’s father reached for his seatbelt and felt an excruciating pain through his arm and left...
Genetic testing offers people the chance to discover whether they are carriers of, or at risk of developing, a heritable disease. Dina Gold interviews Estie Rose, a genetic counselor and outreach coordinator at JScreen. What does a genetic counselor do? Clinical genetic counselors focus on reproductive, pediatric and...
For 69-year-old New Jersey native Rona Greenberg, cancer has always been a constant. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37 and passed away six years later, when Rona was 19 years old. In 1997, just three years after the BRCA genes 1...
“It was good I got cancer,” says Cynthia Kimball. “I thought these kinds of things happened to other people and not to me. I thought I was invincible.” ...
Soon after Danielle “Dee-Dee” Shiller turned 40, her best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then Shiller, a gynecologist and osteopath, learned that a large Jewish family in her Baltimore practice carried the BRCA gene mutation but had no history of breast cancer....
JScreen has made access to genetic carrier screening easier than ever. A national effort based out of Emory University’s Department of Human Genetics, the JScreen genetic screening program is the first of its kind. ...
August 24, 1994 was one of the best days of my life. It was the day that my first child, Evan, was born....
Rachel Chaikof was two years old when, with the help of cochlear implants, she heard her mother’s voice for the first time. “Cry Rachel, cry Rachel, ” her mother sang, alongside Rachel’s grandmother, who clapped her hands, watching her granddaughter, born completely deaf, respond to...