Shannon Pulaski

November 6, 2018

Fostering a Community to Start the Conversation

After finding a tremendous need within the community of families with genetic mutations, Shannon Pulaski chose to offer others a resource tool to help...

CURE Magazine

October 30, 2018

Discussing Hereditary Cancer Risk With Children

Genetic risk for cancer is random. For people who carry specific mutations, such as BRCA1 or BRCA2, there is a 50/50 chance they will pass that gene o...

CURE Magazine

October 23, 2018

Creating Mom’s Genes

One mother with a BRCA gene mutation has written a book to help parents discuss family health histories with their young children. When I was 27, my ...

Harvey Singer

October 16, 2018

Men to Boys: A Discussion of Hereditary Cancer with Your Children

In early 2008, I received a phone call from my sister informing me that after her third breast cancer diagnosis, she had decided to undergo genetic te...

Alejandra Campoverdi

October 9, 2018

Q&A with Alejandra Campoverdi

From the White House to raising awareness in her community, Alejandra Campoverdi is helping to empower women of color to have agency over their own he...

Shannon Pulaski

October 1, 2018

Podcast: Knowing Your Hereditary Risk

In 2010, history was made when a Congressional resolution was passed to declare the first-ever National Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Week and ...

Sue Friedman

September 11, 2018

Cancer Doesn’t Run in My Family…Or Does It?

There’s a common misperception that only people with many family members with cancer should have genetic testing for an inherited mutation. Yet, the...

Tracy Milgram-Posner

September 4, 2018

Previvor Mom

There’s no doubt that being a Previvor is challenging. Although we have not been diagnosed with cancer, just knowing that someday out of the blue ca...

Shannon Pulaski

August 30, 2018

Podcast: Let’s Start a Conversation

Earlier this week I had the great opportunity to sit down with CURE Magazine for their CURE Talks Cancer Podcast to discuss the launch of Proactive Ge...

Amy Byer Shainman

August 27, 2018

Pioneering Women, Angelina Jolie and Mac and Cheese

I happen to be part of a generation of women who are the first in our families able to get ahead of our genes. We are a generation of women who, unlik...

Shannon Pulaski

August 20, 2018

Why I am starting a conversation with my kids about our family’s health history

When I was 27, I gave birth to twin girls. They were born exactly two months early. Ten days later, in that same hospital where my daughters rested in...