Compass Oncology’s groundbreaking Genetic Risk Evaluation and Testing program is a leader in personalized cancer risk reduction.
This systematic review to support the 2019 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic
A genetic test result from a person who has had a diagnosis of cancer provides the most accurate risk assessment for other family members.For example, a man is diagnosed with colon cancer at age 40 and has no other family history of cancer. His doctor orders a multi-gene genetic testing ...
Genetic tests for targeted cancer therapy detect mutations (changes) in the DNA of cancer cells. Knowing whether the cancer has a particular mutation can help guide the type of treatment that a person receives. The presence or absence of certain mutations can predict who may benefit from certain...
Genetic testing panels for colon cancer syndromes Genetic testing for interstitial lung disease in adults Genetic testing of the titin gene for familial dilated cardiomyopathy Genetic testing panels for nonsyndromic hereditary hearing loss (e,g,, OtoScope, OtoGenome, OtoSeq) Genetic testing panels for...
What safeguards are there to protect the privacy of my test results,especially from insurers and employers? What are some diseases or situationsin which genetic tests are currently used?Rare types of breast and ovarian cancers that run in families(BRCAl, BRCAZ)A rare type of colon cancer that...
All that could have been avoided had a simple test been done. The test examines a gene that encodes a liverenzymecalled dihydropyrimidinedehydrogenase(or DPD for short). The enzyme breaks down several common cancer drugs. Without it, toxic levels of the drugs build up in the body, sometimes...
many in the public have adopted a kind of genetic determinism that sees genes as destiny: for example, having the gene associated with colon cancer means they will develop colon cancer. Physicians tend to be more careful, yet even they are not immune to subtle versions of genetic determinism....
This is significant, as obesity has been reported to be associated with a high risk for CRC [5–7], and abdominal obesity was shown to be an independent risk factor for colon cancer as well [8]. In obese individuals, plasma adiponectin concentrations are low, and such levels have been ...
What are reasonable testing goals for Y-DNA? Why do we want to take Y-DNA tests anyway? What can we discover when we test, and when we encourage our cousins to test? Where and how do we find those cousins? If you ladies are thinking, I WISH I had a Y chromosome to test, cheer...