Genetics, Genetic Testing, and Breast Cancer: Part 3

Cristina Nixon is a licensed certified genetic counselor with the Cancer Risk Assessment and Genetics Program at Main Line Health in Pennsylvania. In addition to counseling patients, she also assists with research, including most recently a study looking at multi-gene panels in BRCA1/BRCA2-positive families. Cristina also has completed the City of Hope’s intensive course in cancer risk assessment. This is part three of three-part podcast on genetics and breast cancer with Cristina. Listen to this podcast to hear her explain: how a woman could use an online risk assessment tool the factors the different tools consider why it’s important that a woman use a risk assessment tool with her doctor or a licensed genetic counselor what the results from direct-to-consumer testing companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com contain Listen to part 1 of the series. Listen to part 2 of the series.