The UCSF Center for BRCA Research and UCSF Hereditary Cancer Clinic are offering a series of educational workshops to provide more information for mutation carriers and family members.
Upcoming Workshops
Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: Why Men Should Also Get Tested
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
5:30 - 7:00 pm PT
Event details | Register to attend
Key Topics
- Male risks in hereditary cancer syndromes
- Differences in hereditary and non-hereditary male cancer
- Impact on cancer screening, prevention, and treatment
- Importance of genetic testing for family members
Past Workshops
Updates in Hereditary Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention | November 12, 2024
Video coming soon!
Key Topics
- Genes associated with increased risk of breast cancer
- What did we learn more in the past few years?
- Recent downgrades and upgrades in hereditary breast cancer risk management.
- What is on the horizon?
Hormone Replacement Therapy for Hereditary Cancer Mutation Carriers: Facts & Myths | September 24, 2024
Key Topics:
- Signs and symptoms of menopause
- Long-term health consequences of natural or surgical-induced menopause
- Types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Risks and benefits
- HRT: For whom? Which type? When to start? For how long?
Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer: Risks, Challenges, and Most Recognized Recommendations | June 25, 2024
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the cancer risks associated with hereditary pancreatic cancer syndromes.
- Awareness of morbidity and mortality of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
- Acknowledge the challenges of pancreatic screening and early detection.
- Discussion of current recommendations, options, and limitations.
Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Risk and Management | April 30, 2024
Key Topics:
- Associated genes
- Individual Risk
- Specific Screening and Prevention
Prostate Cancer: Personalized Management for Patients with Hereditary Cancer Mutations | Feb 27, 2024
Learning Objectives:
- Review of prostate cancer risk factors.
- Awareness of who’s at increased risk and what it means.
- Discussion of prostate cancer screening: modalities, recommendations, pros and cons.
- Acknowledgment of the importance and impact of personalized approach for patients and families with hereditary cancer mutations.
Genetic Testing: When and How to Test Relatives | May 30, 2023
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding who in the family is at risk
- Awareness of the importance of identifying at-risk family members
- Options for testing
- Learning the recommended timing for testing relatives
- Acquiring guidance and strategies for communicating with biological relatives
- Reflect on, and learn from other patient's experiences
- Recognizing that there can be different perspectives about genetic testing
- Discussion of real world challenges and approaches of testing relatives
Risk-Reducing Surgeries for Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Options and Timing | October 10, 2023
Learning Objectives:
- Review of current recommendations and considerations of risk-reducing surgeries
- Discussion of modalities and timing for surgeries
- Awareness of the importance and impact of this approach
- Discussion of risks and benefits
- Acquire knowledge and guidance to help the surgical decision-making