What You Need To Know About Genetic Testing

What is genetic testing?
Maybe you’ve heard about genetic testing for diseases and wondered: What does that mean? Should I do it? What do the results mean? Here’s what you need to know.
For example, you may be familiar with women who are at risk for or have breast cancer getting tested for genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. “It may sound like they are getting tested to see if they have BRCA1 and BRCA2 — but everyone has these genes,” says Monique Lubaton, MGC, CGC, cance