Category: hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

Recommendations and Reality: What Personal Stories of Hereditary Cancer Can Tell Us

four photos of Sarah, Dave, Zac and Gloria (reading order starting top left)

In public health and clinical medicine, recommendations for interventions are generally based on the evidence supporting improved health outcomes. Studies that inform these recommendations often focus on the evidence for benefits, especially when those benefits include lives saved. The harms that affect quality of life are more challenging to quantify and sometimes go unmeasured. Recommendations Read More >

October 6, 2015 by Ridgely Fisk Green, Carter Consulting, Inc., and Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Katrina Trivers, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 Comment

breast cancer, cancer, genomics

hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, Lynch Syndrome

A Public Health Genomic State-by-State Clickable Map: Accelerating Implementation of Genomics Applications to Improve Population Health

In recent years, public health programs in several states have used innovative approaches to implement evidence-based genomic testing recommendations in an effort to improve health outcomes for people at increased hereditary risk for breast, ovarian, colorectal and other cancers. For example, the Michigan Department of Community Health [PDF 1.04 MB] has partnered with payers in Read More >

June 20, 2013 by Karen Greendale, MA, CGC, McKing Consulting, Contractor for the Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 Comment

genomics

familial hypercholesterolemia, genetic counseling, genetic testing, genetics, genomics, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, Lynch Syndrome, public health