by CancerIQ, on Aug 21, 2019 6:03:13 PM
Primary care clinicians should assess women with a personal or family history of breast, ovarian, tubal, or peritoneal cancer or who have an ancestry associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene …
Read Storyby Feyi Olopade Ayodele, on Aug 15, 2019 2:01:55 PM
There are over 157 million women in the United States. About 12 percent of those women will develop invasive breast cancer, according to the nonprofit group BreastCancer.org. That's over 18 …
Read Storyby CancerIQ, on Jul 29, 2019 9:17:00 AM
How do health systems make the most of their valuable - and limited - genetic counselor resources? This was focus of the recent "Hot Topic Webinar" hosted by the Association …
Read Storyby CancerIQ, on Jul 24, 2019 12:35:38 PM
The stats are well-known by now. The U.S. spends nearly 18 percent of its GDP on healthcare, which is about twice that of other high-income nations. However, despite the amount …
Read Storyby Feyi Olopade Ayodele, on Jul 8, 2019 4:13:07 PM
Hereditary cancer risk assessment programs present an enormous value proposition for health systems. In the short-term, it can drive additional revenue through increased surveillance and preventative services. Over the long …
Read Storyby CancerIQ, on Jun 14, 2019 9:20:53 AM
Paper questionnaires for determining a patient's risk for hereditary cancers. Limited genetic counselor resources throughout the country. Too much burdensome administrative work. These are common problems that cancer risk assessment …
Read Storyby CancerIQ, on Mar 11, 2019 5:35:42 PM
At the ACCC 45th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit in Washington D.C., Michele Settelmyer, APN, MSN will share how OSF Healthcare implemented its high-risk screening and genetic counseling …
Read Storyby Feyi Olopade Ayodele, on Feb 26, 2019 3:12:35 PM
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for genetic testing should be updated, suggests a 2018 study published in the Journal of Oncology. The study looked at 959 breast cancer patients, and …
Read Storyby Feyi Olopade Ayodele, on Feb 4, 2019 4:26:35 PM
Black History Month is an important celebration for us here at CancerIQ, and with today marking World Cancer Day (which aims to raise awareness of cancer and encourage its prevention, …
Read Storyby Feyi Olopade Ayodele, on Jan 9, 2019 12:59:49 PM
In the last year using CancerIQ, we have been able to see 41% more patients, and we have not increased our genetic counseling FTEs." | Candace (Candy) Nehlsen-Hofman, MS, LCGC, …
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