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August 30, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight – Faith Miller

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , Volunteer , American Sign Language

June 30, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight - Scott Lanman

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight , Caregivers
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Peer Navigation , Support , Volunteer

June 21, 2021

One Woman’s Breast Cancer Journey: It’s Not Just About the Breast

Posted in: Books And Movies
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , BRCA1 , Coping With Risk

June 14, 2021

Surviving, and Thriving, as a Dad with a Cancer Gene Mutation

Posted in: Men With Mutations , Stories
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA2 , Men With Mutations

June 14, 2021

Actor Chad Boseman’s Death Raises Questions about Colorectal Cancer in African Americans

Posted in: XRAY , Health Equity And Disparities
Tags: Screening And Prevention , Health Disparities , Health Equity , Colorectal Cancer

June 11, 2021

Living Life to its Fullest with an ATM Mutation in a Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted in: Stories
Tags: ATM , COVID19

May 13, 2021

Regaining Breast Sensation After Mastectomy

Posted in: Breast Reconstruction And Going Flat
Tags: Reconstruction Or Going Flat , Risk-reducing Mastectomy , Quality Of Life

May 03, 2021

Did Breastfeeding my Daughter Reduce my Ovarian Cancer Risk?

Posted in: XRAY , Previvor
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Ovarian Cancer , Previvor , Screening And Prevention

April 29, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight – Tanya Temkin

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: Ovarian Cancer , BRCA2 , Volunteer

April 23, 2021

New Advancements in Cancer Screenings Bring Hope for the Future

Posted in: XRAY , Cancer Treatment
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , BRCA1 , Prostate Cancer

April 05, 2021

Why So Many of Us Quit Taking Tamoxifen

Posted in: XRAY , Quality Of Life
Tags: Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , BRCA2 , Prophylactic Surgery

March 30, 2021

Understanding Breast Implant Risks

Posted in: Guidelines , XRAY
Tags: Cancer Prevention , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA2 , Prophylactic Surgery , Reconstruction Or Going Flat , Mastectomy , Risk-reducing Mastectomy

March 29, 2021

New Hope and Treatments for People with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Posted in: XRAY , Cancer Treatment , Caregivers
Tags: Breast Cancer , Metastatic Breast Cancer

March 24, 2021

Increasing the Participation of Pregnant Women in Appropriate Clinical Research

Posted in: Research
Tags: Research Advocacy

March 22, 2021

Lynch Syndrome Awareness Day – March 22nd 2021

Posted in: Hereditary Cancer - General , Partnerships
Tags: Lynch Syndrome

March 15, 2021

Improving Memory in Menopause: the IMPRES Study

Posted in: Research , Menopause
Tags: Hereditary Cancer Research , Menopause , Risk-reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy

March 05, 2021

After Three Cancer Diagnoses, a Sense of Peace after Learning of My Lynch Syndrome Mutation

Posted in: Stories
Tags: Lynch Syndrome , Endometrial Cancer

March 02, 2021

The Importance of Learning Your Pancreatic Cancer Risk When Cancer Runs in Your Family

Posted in: Research , Genetic Testing
Tags: BRCA , PALB2 , Pancreatic Cancer , ATM , Lynch Syndrome

February 26, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight – Sivan Schondorf

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: BRCA1 , Risk-reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy , Risk-reducing Mastectomy , Volunteer

February 01, 2021

Breaking Breast Cancer Color Barriers and Building Bridges

Posted in: XRAY , Health Equity And Disparities , Diversity And Inclusion , Featured Partner
Tags: Breast Cancer , Health Disparities , Health Equity , Women Of Color , Breast Cancer Survivors , Young Women With Breast Cancer , Partner

January 25, 2021

Hereditary Colorectal Cancer: My AFAP Story

Posted in: Stories
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Colorectal Cancer , AFAP , Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndrome

January 13, 2021

Honoring the Life of Teri Woodhull

Posted in: Voices
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Clinical Trials , FORCE

January 13, 2021

Tracing Our Family Mutation to an Unlikely Place

Posted in: Genetic Testing
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , Inherited Mutations

January 04, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight – Ashley Dedmon

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight , Diversity And Inclusion
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA2

December 28, 2020

Courage and Strength are Inherited Too

Posted in: Genetic Testing , Hereditary Cancer - General , Diversity And Inclusion , Caregivers
Tags: Lynch Syndrome , Colorectal Cancer

December 10, 2020

BRCA Family Traditions

Posted in: Voices
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Mastectomy , Coping With Risk

December 07, 2020

My Previvor Journey: My Robotic Mastectomy

Posted in: Breast Reconstruction And Going Flat , Voices
Tags: Mastectomy , Robotic

November 10, 2020

Previvor at 25 - The Beginning has just Begun

Posted in: XRAY , Health Equity And Disparities , Previvor , Diversity And Inclusion
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , Previvor , HBOC

November 06, 2020

Pandemic Previvors

Posted in: COVID19
Tags: Previvor , Health , Pandemic , Medical Decisions

October 30, 2020

Volunteer Spotlight - Dana Tiller

Posted in: Volunteer Spotlight
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , FORCE , Volunteer