Kane Street Synagogue and NYU Langone Medical Center presented a seminar with NYU School of Medicine:
Beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2: The next generation of genetic discovery
7:00 PM Thursday May 7, 2009 at Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane Street, Brooklyn. This event was free; contact at beyondbrca1and2@kanestreet.org
Research reveals a link between testing positive for mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and developing breast and/or ovarian cancer. But not all women with a mutation develop cancer, and many women without a mutation do. And not all women with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancer have a mutation in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Do you find this puzzling or confusing?
Kane Street Synagogue hosted a seminar featuring Dr. Freya Schnabel, Director of Breast Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center. The seminar included an educational talk including the current knowledge of breast and ovarian cancer genetics and management in high risk women. She also introduced a cutting edge study focused on women of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry to help answer these important questions. Eligible women that are interested in participating in the study had the opportunity to enroll in the study at the seminar.
BRCA 1and 2 testing is quite expensive and not all heath insurance plans pay for it. Enrolling in the study may enable women with family histories of breast and/or ovarian cancer to be tested for free or at reduced cost. The research is being funded by individual philanthropists, The Shifrin-Myer Breast Cancer Research Fund, and Jewish Women's Foundation of New York. I also recommend that women with family histories of breast and/or ovarian cancer see the PBS POV documentary In The Family.
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