Category: Patient

• Decisions, Decisions: What To Consider When Deciding On Risk Reducing Surgery

  If you have been diagnosed with an inherited colorectal cancer syndrome, your healthcare provider may have recommended that you consider having risk reducing surgery.

• Approaching Surgical Decisions as a Previvor of a Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndrome

  With the increase in genetic testing for hereditary cancer syndromes, many women, especially those under the age of 50, are undergoing prophylactic surgeries in order to prevent cancer.

• A Cancer Related Story of a Man’s Best Friend

  Only weeks after I completed all of my treatments for breast cancer in the fall of 2014, my wife and I decided to get a dog to replace the one we had to put down the previous April for medical reasons.

• Why is Increased Screening Recommended In Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Syndromes? Why is it Important and What Screening Can Be Done?

  You may have wondered why cancer-screening recommendations for individuals with a known hereditary colorectal cancer(CRC) syndrome are so much different than those recommended for individuals with no strong family history of cancer.

• What is the ‘New Normal’?

  What is the new normal after you’ve been diagnosed with cancer and spent a year of your life, if not more, going through treatment and you’ve come out on the other side a little worse for the wear, but alive and seemingly in tact?

• Is it THAT Time of Year, Again?!?

  Pity is usually available only in short supply in my family. We’re very much a “Life’s hard…wear a helmet” group of people. That’s not to say that we don’t care for each other, because we definitely do.

• What Happens When I Get My Test Results

  Learning the results of genetic testing can be a stressful experience for some, but it also has the potential to be empowering.

• Half Full

  Receiving genetic test results is never an easy process. It’s human nature to be concerned about the unexpected, especially when it can affect your future so significantly.

• The Importance of Genetic Counseling With Genetic Testing

  As I sit in the hereditary cancer trenches, I see the negative effects of genetic testing sans certified genetic counseling every single day – and it is an enormous problem.

• What Do Genetic Counselors Do?

  My name is Jessica Profato-Partlow. I am a relatively new member of the Ambry Genetics family, and very excited to be a part of our hereditary cancer patient website.