Inside the GENOME

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.

In this episode, Dr. Slavin welcomes Leigha Senter-Jamieson, MS, CGC, to the podcast. As an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Associate Director of the Division of Human Genetics, and the Ohio State University Genetic Counseling Graduate Program Associate Director she discusses hereditary testing and offers her unique insight into the emerging role of genetic counselors in tumor testing.

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.

In this episode, Dr. Slavin welcomes Dr. Todd Cohen, Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Myriad Urology department. Dr. Cohen formerly practiced with Hawes Urology before pursuing an academic role as the Assistant Chairman of Urology at Ohio State University. He then co-founded Piedmont Urology in Charlotte, NC before forming Carolina Urology Partners, a merging of nine urology groups, where he acted as co-CEO, then CEO. Myriad Genetics welcomed Dr. Cohen in his leadership role in March of 2019.  Dr. Cohen brings his many years of expertise to the discussion regarding genomics, the role of gene expression assays, and the treatment of prostate cancer. 

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.

Additional resources cited in this episode:
Hu et al NEJM - A population based study of genes previously implicated in Breast Cancer 2021. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2005936

Palmer et al. JNCI paper - Contribution of Germline Predisposition Gene Mutations to Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32427313/

Antoniou et al NEJM - Breast caner risk in families with mutations in PALB2 2014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25099575/

Yang et al 2020 PALB2 paper Dr. Couch referenced 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31841383/

BCAC study - NEJM 2021 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1913948

Narod editorial to these two papers - CARRIERS and BCAC. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2035083?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article

BCAC Study paper titled: Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association in More than 113,000 Women CARRIERS study is titled - A Population Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

In this episode, Dr. Slavin welcomes medical oncologist and researcher, Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, FACP.  He is a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-director of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center. Dr. Brufsky has been an innovator involved with breast cancer research for many years. Together, they discuss breast cancer gene expression assays and the role it plays in treating breast cancer. 

In this episode of Inside the Genome, Dr. Slavin talks with  Dr. Karen Hurley. Dr. Hurley is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Center for Adult Behavioral Health at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She has given numerous presentations on patients’ psychosocial situations as they experience the genetic testing process.

Myriad Oncology Live episodes are recordings of an open-forum webinar hosted by Dr. Thomas Slavin. The opinions and views expressed in this recording do not necessarily represent those of Myriad Genetics or its affiliates. To participate in a future recording, visit myriad-oncology.com/myriad-oncology-live for a list of dates, times, and subjects.