Advanced Oncology & Cancer Genetic Testing
A BRCA test can feel like it settles one question: will I get cancer or not? It doesn’t. What it gives you is a risk estimate, and the numbers behind that estimate are often quoted without context, which makes them sound either more frightening or more reassuring than they really are. This guide is about […]
Sometimes a person has symptoms that point to an inherited condition, but no single test explains them. In that situation, doctors may stop testing one gene at a time and read much more of the DNA at once. Two options come up: whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS). The names sound alike, […]
Every pregnancy carries a question no parent wants to ask out loud: What if something is wrong with my baby? For decades, Pakistani mothers had only two options to answer that question: accept uncertainty or undergo an invasive procedure that itself carried the risk of harming the pregnancy they were trying to protect. That changed […]
Pregnancy brings a lot of new terminology, and NIPT is one of the tests that comes up early, often around the first trimester. It’s a screening test that looks at a small amount of the baby’s DNA circulating in the mother’s blood, and understanding what it does and doesn’t tell you can make the conversation […]
