All Posts: genetic testing

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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

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MRI May Lower Breast Cancer Deaths From Variants in Three Genes

February 17, 2022

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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

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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

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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…

September 20, 2019

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Significant ‘Knowledge Gap’ Exists in Use of Genetic Testing to Decide Cancer Treatment

May 30, 2019

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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