Genetic Counseling

New U Women’s Clinic & Aesthetics is the only clinic in the region to offer specialized genetic counseling and testing services. We strive to provide exceptional quality of care by offering precisional medicine with genetic testing.

Our provider, Rachel Gorham-Fidino, is board certified in advanced cancer genetics and treats family history as the new symptom.

She offers Myrisk panel testing to rule out Hereditary Cancer Syndromes including Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome and Lynch Syndrome.

If you have a family or personal history of the following cancers, please make an appointment with Rachel Gorham-Fidino today.

You can also click on the following Hereditary Cancer Quiz to see if you meet criteria for genetic testing.

Types of Cancers Associated with a possible Hereditary Cancer Syndrome:

• Breast Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Melanoma
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer
• Endometrial Cancer

New U Women’s Clinic and Aesthetics offers a test called Genesight. This genetic test is for patients who have ever been diagnosed with depression and failed at least one medication. Genesight Psychotropic test is a pharmacogenomic test that analyzes clinically important genetic variations in your DNA. The results of the test can inform your provider about genes that may impact how you metabolize or respond to certain medications.

New U Women’s Clinic & Aesthetics offers Myriad Foresight Carrier Screen. The Myriad Foresight Carrier Screen identifies couples who are at elevated risk of passing inherited conditions to their children. Strict disease inclusion criteria are used to select conditions that are serious, clinically-actionable, and prevalent. There are over 175 serious inherited conditions that are included in Foresight Carrier Screening. Men and women who are planning to start a family should be tested. Patients should ideally be screened before or during pregnancy. The sample consists of 4 mL of blood or saliva sample.