All Posts: genetic testing
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- News Release
Despite Medicare Coverage, Many Cancer Patients Still Do Not Receive Testing That Guides Treatment Options
While there has been a recent increase among Medicare recipients in genomic testing that helps match cancer patients to the most effective treatment for their tumor, many…
July 29, 2026
- News Release
Rise in Claim Denial Rates for Cancer-Related Advanced Genetic Testing
A newly published analysis by Georgetown Lombardi member So-Yeon Kang, PhD, MBA, and colleagues has found that both the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for cancer…
April 18, 2025
- 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
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January 28, 2020
- GUMC Stories
Telenovela Empowers At-Risk Latina Women to Seek Genetic Counseling Services
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October 4, 2019
- GUMC Stories
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Getting it ‘Morally Right’
(September 18, 2019) — The TV advertisements for DNA testing are ubiquitous: there’s one with the young man who thought he was part German until genetic testing led him to trade…
September 20, 2019
- News Release
Significant ‘Knowledge Gap’ Exists in Use of Genetic Testing to Decide Cancer Treatment
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May 30, 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 take…
May 16, 2019