Category: Patient

• No Colon, No Cancer: I Fought for the Life I Deserved.

  I never thought I’d hear the “C” word. Newly married and about to start my graduate degree, everything seemed bright.

• Finding the Missing Link of Heart Disease in Families: Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)

  Many people have friends and family members who tell stories of losing their father when he was 40, or having a mother who had a heart attack in her 30s.

• Part II: Marfan Syndrome and the Unknowns of Genetic Testing

  Patient blogger and genetic counselor Linh Ngo recounts her genetic testing journey, and how she grappled with a result that was reported to be a ‘variant of unknown significance’.

• Science in 60 – Genetic Testing and Familial Hypercholesterolemia – (FH)

  Ambry GC Tami Johnson explains the benefits of multi-gene panel testing for Familial Hypercholesterolemia.

• Marfan Syndrome and the Unknowns of Genetic Testing

  Patient blogger and genetic counselor Linh Ngo recounts her genetic testing journey, and how she grappled with a result that was reported to be a ‘variant of unknown significance’.

• American Heart Month: It’s All in the Family

  February is American Heart Month, so what better time to consider not only your own heart health, but that of your entire family?

• How I Got Ahead of Cancer After Learning About My BRCA2 Gene Mutation

  I was told that my inherited BRCA2 mutation means that I have up to an 87% chance of having breast cancer in my lifetime and up to an 18% chance of having ovarian cancer.

• Genetic Testing May Have Changed Things for My Mom

  If my mom had the same information available to her in 1986 when she was first diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, perhaps she wouldn’t be living today with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer to the lung.

• 7 Things You Learn When You Get Neuroendocrine Cancer at 23

  At 23 years old, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Neuroendocrine cancer. Initially, I remember thinking “great- not only do I have cancer, I have a rare cancer that I’ve never even heard of!”

• Genetic Counselors: Companions on the Journey to Rare Disease Diagnosis

  We didn’t immediately recognize the benefits of having a Genetic Counselor, we just knew we were terrified for the fate of our daughter.