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Showing posts with label genetic-counseling. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

The BRCA Gene Mutation: Should You Tell Your Children?

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Parents of who children learn they have the BRCA gene mutation have a difficult question to answer: Should they tell their children?

Jill Stopfer,MS, genetic counselor at Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center, was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about this topic.

"One of the questions we all have and we all worry about in this area is 'how much information is too much?'" said Stopfer. "Are we hopefully helping our children and not hurting them?"

Read the full article about telling children about a BRCA gene mutation here.  

Learn more about the MacDonald Women’s Cancer Risk Evaluation Center.
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