
Chandrika Kurpad, MS, LCGC
@ckurpad
Cancer Genetic Counselor #NSGC_CancerSIG #GeneticCouns #CGAIGC Views my own
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📢Have you registered? Don't miss our last webinar of 2024‼️ #JohnKisiel from the Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology & Hepatology will🗣️ "New Non-Invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests - Books Beyond Their Covers" 🗓️Tue Nov 19 ⌚️noon ET / 9 am PT ✍️Register👉tinyurl.com/636vnbjh #HereditaryGICancer


Glad to see this data out from our colleagues in #Japan 🇯🇵 Dr. Kataoka #Galaxy trial re: role of #ctDNA in resected #livermets #colorectal #cancer and the benefit of adjuvant chemo in (+) MRD pts for OS. Annals of Oncology Natera Oncology #crcsm OncoAlert pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39293512/



Now an abstract from our friends at Ambry Genetics presented by Jennifer Herrera-Mullar. Patients with CTNNA1 pathogenic variants had no increased risk of lobular breast cancer as compared to controls and lower risk of gastric cancer as compared to CDH1.


Matteo Repetto from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center presented on patients with MUTYH germline variants who developed cancer and the prevalence of subsequent somatic mutations.




Next up is Kasmintan Schrader from University of British Columbia presenting exciting data on new technology which can identify the parent of origin from a blood sample. Adding precision to familial risk assessment and cascade testing!


Hepatobiliary cancers: germline genetic associations and when to test Kirk Wangensteen, MD/PhD #CGAIGC24


Gastrointestinal cancer risks and management in Li-Fraumeni syndrome, great talk by Kara Maxwell #CGAIGC24





📣We're thrilled to partner with Fight Colorectal Cancer again for the 2025 #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth! ➡️Learn from our president, Beth Yurkovich Dudley about the importance of this partnership here 👉tinyurl.com/w7ffpwuk 📍Also, see how you can participate this March! Think



1/Welcome to #CGAIGCJS Tweetorial on “Neoplasia Detection Through Colonic Surveillance Among Young Individuals With MSH6/PMS2-Associated #LynchSyndrome” by CGA-IGC communications committee member Dan Li Full article in AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology at DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003369


📢May is National Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month—a time to highlight experiences of the AAPI community. ➡️In recognition of this month, Chandrika Kurpad, MS, LCGC a member of our Communications Committee, authored a thoughtful blog post titled "Understanding Barriers to



1/Welcome to #CGAIGCJS Tweetorial on “Cancer and Overgrowth Manifestations of PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome: Management Recommendations from the International PHTS Consensus Guidelines Working Group” by #CGAIGC Communications Committee member Monika Laszkowska, MD, MS ➡️Full article in
