Kimberley is from the UK, where she completed her degrees in nursing, psychology and Genetic Counselling. She was involved in setting up the All Wales Cancer Genetics Service and held one of the first Macmillan Cancer Society funded roles in this area. She subsequently worked at Alder Hey Hospital in the UK in a general, paediatric and cancer Genetic Counselling role. After moving to NZ in 2007, Kimberley became the team Leader of the Auckland based service. This became one of the three hubs of the Genetic Health Service NZ when they became a national service in 2012.
| Breast Cancer Symposium
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Hereditary Breast Cancer
Pre-conference Workshop (Repeated) |
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| Thursday, 12 June 2014 | Start 2:00pm | Duration: 120mins | Room 1 |
| Start 4:30pm | Duration: 120mins | Room 1 | |
| Hereditary breast cancer Breast cancer affects 1 in 9-12 women. Only 5- 10% of breast cancer is attributable to the presence of a high-risk cancer gene. In this sub-group of women, the presence of a particular gene increases their risk of developing breast, and other, cancer 10-20 fold, but does not mean that a woman will develop cancer. Women who are likely to carry such high penetrant genes can be identified by distinctive family pedigrees, personal histories or specific histological characteristics of their cancers. Once selected on these criteria, appropriate genetic testing can be offered after genetic counselling. Genetic testing is complicated by the detection of variants of uncertain pathogenic significance, resource constraints and an incomplete knowledge of all high-penetrance genes. This presentation will highlight: • important information a GP requires before making a referral for cancer genetic testing • what happens after a referral is accepted • why not all referred patients are tested • some issues related to genetic test results |
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