siliconindia | | March 20188In my opinionI f you saw a patient who was under 50 and had breast, colon, or ovarian cancer, what course of action would you recommend? What if the patient was a woman with more than 1 type of cancer, or a man with both colon and bladder cancers? If your response would be to refer those patients for genetic counseling, you would be doing the right thing, according to experts in the field. The successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 resulted in an exponential increase in volume of genetic information linked to human diseases. Development of new technologies, especially next generation sequencing (NGS) has increased the accessibility of genetic information. The wealth of information we've garnered is helping provide opportunities to advance medical care, improve health outcomes and cut costs through more effective management of diseases. The current buzz word in healthcare is `personalized medicine'. Personalized medicine essentially works on the assumption that a disease can be caused by multiple factors, where any one factor is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause the disease. It recognizes gene x environment, EVOLVING ROLE OF GENETIC COUNSELORS IN HEALTHCAREBy Aparna Dhar, Medical Geneticist & Genetic Counselor, CORE DiagnosticsGurugram based CORE Diagnostics is a high-end diagnostics service provider, reducing the gap between the Indian diagnostic industry and its global counterparts.Aparna Dhar
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