📢Today is #GeneticCounselorAwarenessDay‼️ 🚨#GeneticCounselors play an important role in caring for and supporting patients with #HereditaryGICancer🚨 🙏to the wonderful genetic counselors in our community, today and every day‼️ ➡️Learn more here 👉tinyurl.com/d4mxtkh7 🧵

WOAH Happy GC Awareness Day! #GCChat #GCAWARENESSDAY

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📢If you missed the "How We Do It" sessions at #CGAIGC23 join us for tomorrow's webinar w/ contribution from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & TriHealth 🚨FREE for members🚨 🗓️Nov 17 ⏲️ 1 pm ET / 10 am PT ➡️Sign up 👉cgaigc.com/webinars #HereditaryGICancer Josie Baker Pooja Dharwadkar, MD

1/ Welcome to #CGAIGCJS November Tweetorial on the Making #Genetic Testing Accessible (MAGENTA) Trial by #CGAIGC Comms Cttee member asaf maoz ➡️The full article from JAMA Oncology can be found at 👉tinyurl.com/bdh5t6jv 🧵 #HereditaryGICancer

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Great to see our Treasurer Michael J Hall at the Colon Cancer Foundation #eoCRC Summit speaking about Genetics' Role in #eoCRC #HereditaryGICancer

📢Happening this week‼️ ➡️Our first💻of 2024 - "How We Do It: Expanding #Genetic Services" Register👉cgaigc.com/webinar 👂to Maria McGreevy share her institutions experience in increasing access to testing in rural locations‼️ #HereditaryGICancer Nick Bartell Ed Esplin, MD, PhD

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📢Calling on the #HereditaryGICancer community ‼️ 💙Get your wardrobe ready for #DressInBlueDay on March 1⃣ to kick off #CRCAwarenessMonth & show your support💙

We're thrilled to be teaming up with Fight Colorectal Cancer during #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth this March in a joint effort to address the rising prevalence of early-onset colorectal cancer. ➡️Learn more about our partnership here 👉🔗tinyurl.com/2yv8u7th

📢Today is #LynchSyndromeAwarenessDay 🙏to Laura Valle for zooming in on #LynchSyndrome Is it a single #hereditary #cancer syndrome or multiple syndromes defined by different MMS genes? ➡️Watch her📽️👉youtu.be/9TVt5-1Fs2U to learn more #CRCAwarenessMonth #primarycare

📢September is also #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth ➡️Our Comms Cttee member Chandrika Kurpad, MS, LCGC has written a👍 📜highlighting the recent📑in The Lancet Oncology abt the groundbreaking study revealing new insights into the #rarecancer syndrome #CMMRD 📌Read the📜👉tinyurl.com/3p3npsw7

📢Our Executive Council elections are OPEN! 📌Meet our nominees🙌 🌟Sanjeevani Arora, PhD 🌟Pooja Dharwadkar, MD 🌟Christine Drogan, MS, LCGC 🌟Jessica Long, MS, CGC 🌟Gautam Mankaney, MD 🌟Joshua Sommovilla, MD ➡️As a #CGAIGC member, YOU can VOTE! Check your 📩for details‼️

November is #PancreaticCancerAwarenessmonth! #CGAIGC24 has some👍talks abt #PancreaticCancer Our Comms Cttee vice chair Kimberly Hilfrank🗣️w/ Dr Fay Kastrino abt the JAMA article "#PancreaticCancer🔍& Survival of High-Risk 🧑‍🤝‍🧑" 📍👂to the interview 👉youtu.be/Y5isMGsDh64

Happy Thanksgiving‼️ As you prepare for #Thanksgiving, remember it’s also #NationalFamilyHistoryDay This is a👍opportunity to sit down with your #family & learn more abt your👪health history, esp. regarding #Cancer @SanjeevaniArora Josie Baker Christine Drogan Emma Keel (she/her)

There is still time to register for the Natera Oncology x #CGAIGC webinar happening next week‼️ 🗓️Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 ⏱️7:00 PM ET | 4:00 PM PT ➡️Register here 👉tinyurl.com/mvsvpytp Leveraging ctDNA to enhance identification of #HereditaryGICancer will be

📢 Calling for abstracts! Submissions are now open for #CGAIGC25 in St. Louis. Check out the guidelines and share your latest research in #HereditaryGICancer with our scientific committee! 🔗 bit.ly/41atu42