All Posts: genetic counseling

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Informing Children of a Mother’s Genetic Cancer Risk Does Not Impact Their Health Behaviors

July 21, 2022

GUMC Stories

Cancer Genetic Counseling in the Time of COVID-19

(May 28, 2020) — It may be hard to believe, but as recently as 2014, the idea of delivering genetic counseling for familial cancer risk remotely instead of in-person was quite…

May 28, 2020

GUMC Stories

Cancer Organization Recommends Genetic Testing for Jewish People of Ashkenazi Descent

January 28, 2020

GUMC Stories

Be a Family Detective This Holiday Season

November 14, 2019

GUMC Stories

Telenovela Empowers At-Risk Latina Women to Seek Genetic Counseling Services

October 4, 2019

News Release

Why Adults at Risk for Huntington’s Disease Choose Not to Learn if They Inherited Deadly Gene

MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 16, 2019) — As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington’s disease (HD) choose not to…

May 16, 2019

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Georgetown Genetic Counselor Offers Insight on Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing Kits

WASHINGTON (December 20, 2018) — You better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why, DNA tests are coming to town. The DNA testing kit has…

December 20, 2018