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Preconception Genetic Testing: A Step Towards a Healthy Pregnancy

Planning for a baby is exciting, and carrier genetic testing offers valuable insights to help you prepare for a healthy pregnancy.

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Understanding BRCA Testing: What You Need to Know

The journey to understanding your genetic health often begins with a single question: "Should I get tested?"

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What is Genetic Testing?

Not sure what genetic testing means for you? Learn how carrier screening and hereditary cancer screening work—and how to get started from home.

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National Previvor Day: Elana’s Story

In late 2020, amidst a global pandemic and with the guidance of my GYN, I decided to do a hereditary cancer genetic panel that would test for over seventy known genetic mutations linked to all different hereditary cancers. My own mother is a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed at 40 years young but we were always told that because she did not have a BRCA mutation that the cancer wasn’t genetic. Being the daughter of a scientist and a survivor, this didn’t seem like the complete picture.

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Proud Previvor Orit Berliner

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Genetic Testing for Cancer Gene Mutations in Men

As a genetic counselor at JScreen, I will often hear my male patients express concern for their partners, daughters, mothers, and sisters, without realizing how it may affect them. One of the most common misconceptions about genetic testing for cancer is that it’s only a test for women. So let’s take a minute to expose and debunk some of these myths.

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