Educating Patients, and Physcians, On the Importance of Genetic Testing in Breast Cancer
Genetic and genomic testing has changed the landscape of cancer care, especially for patients with breast cancer and those with metastatic breast cancer. Source: CureToday.com
Free, Cheap and Easy Ways to Get Tested for the BRCA Mutation
Did you know that if you are even part Ashkenazi, you have a 1 in 40 chance of carrying a cancer-causing BRCA mutation? Yeah, neither did I. What’s more, this startling statistic is true even if there’s no history of […]
Take the test: doctors urge some South Floridians to test for genetic mutation that carries higher risk of cancer
A dangerous genetic mutation causing an alarmingly high rate of breast and ovarian cancers, and doctors say one South Florida population has a higher risk, but there is a way to detect it. 7’s Kevin Ozebek tell us that’s why […]
Eileen Winkler Youtie Named First Recipeint of Yodeah’s Newly Created Chazak Award
Yodeah announces the creation of the Chazak Award to recognize amazing people who have inspired our mission and worked with Yodeah to save generations of Jewish families through education and testing for Jewish hereditary cancers. The Hebrew word Chazak means […]
Personalizing care with genetics: Dr. Etkin-Kramer and Dana’s Story
Personalizing care with genetics: Dr. Etkin-Kramer and Dana’s Source: Color Genomics
Federation Partner Agencies Shine During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Sharsharet and Yodeah — two nonprofits whose work is centered around breast cancer screenings, support, education and awareness of the heightened risk for hereditary genetic mutations faced by Jewish women and men — are making sure Breast Cancer Awareness month […]
