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“Fresh Air”/WHYY-FM (NPR)-Interview 3/14/16
This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. If you have a history of cancer in your family, you may be wondering if you should get a genetic test to see if you have any genetic mutations that might predispose you to cancer. My guest has had a lot of experience with that issue, professionally and personally.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS-Interview 3/7/16
Theodora Ross fully intended to write her book on cancer genetics in third person.
But when you run a cancer lab and have treated thousands of patients and have had the disease yourself and describe your own family as “probably a big, juicy, cancery-feast to the researchers,” being personal was really the only option.
“Tech Nation”/TECH NATION MEDIA/KQED (San Francisco)-Interview 3/4/16
In this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SHAI GOZANI, President & CEO of Neurometrix. It’s about treating chronic pain with a small device strapped to your calf. Apparently … it’s all in your brain.
“The Roundtable”/WAMC-FM (Northeast Public Radio)-Interview 2/29/16
There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether the history of cancers in her family was simple bad luck or a sign that they were carriers of a cancer-causing genetic mutation.
OPRAH.COM-Interview ran 2/12/16
1. You Might Be Wrong About the Kinds of Cancer in Your Family
“It’s shocking how inaccurate family histories are,” says Theodora Ross, MD, PhD, professor of internal medicine, director of the Cancer Genetics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and the author of A Cancer in the Family: Take Control Of Your Genetic Inheritance.
“CBS This Morning”/ CBS-TV-Interview about direct to consumer genetic tests ran 2/10/16
Thanks to breakthroughs in technology, the market for genetic tests that give patients information about their genes has surged over the past decade. According to one recent estimate, there are now more than 60,000 on the market.
Inheriting Cancer 2/3/16
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An estimated 10 percent of cancer cases are considered hereditary. This hour, we’ll learn how we can spot the patterns of inherited cancer with Dr. Theodora Ross, director of the Cancer Genetics Program at UT-Southwestern Medical Center. Her new book is called “A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance” (Avery).
Q&A ran 2/1/16
Theodora Ross is both a scientist and physician. She directs the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Cancer Genetics Program. Ross recently published her first book, “A Cancer in the Family.”
ANTI-CANCER CLUB – ran 1/29/16
At any given moment, there are 13 million people in the US who have cancer. And for each of those 13 million, there are countless family members who might be wondering – is this cancer part of a pattern? Could I be at risk?
FIRST FOR WOMEN.COM-Interviews as part of a series on minimizing risk for hereditary cancers ran First piece ran 1/14/16
There are about 14 million Americans who have cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. It’s so common that most of us have a relative–or, sometimes, several–who’ve had one type or another. What we may not realize, though, is that some cancers are can be caused by genetic mutations that are hereditary, increasing the risk that many family members will develop the disease.