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GECKO on the run: A 3-page, evidence-based summary for healthcare providers. Features a bottom line, red flags for a genomic assessment, associated cancer risk, benefits and limitations of genetic testing. (Updated Jan 2019)

GECKO deep dive: A 9-page, comprehensive evidence-based resource for healthcare providers. Features a bottom line, red flags for a genomic assessment, associated cancer risk, benefits and limitations of genetic testing, references and more. (Updated Jan 2019)

Point of care tool: A two-part (I, II) tool containing three questions to stratify an individual’s risk for hereditary colorectal cancer and to identify those that likely to benefit from a genomic assessment (I), as well as those at high risk to carry a mutation in a Lynch syndrome gene (II). (Updated Oct 2014).

 

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A Guide to understanding prenatal screening

A Guide to understanding prenatal screening

A resource developed for pregnant persons and their providers. Everything you wanted to know about screening from deciding whether or not have it, to results…

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The GEC-KO team will be presenting at the 2021 University of Ottawa’s Annual Refresher Course

Have some questions about how Canada’s genetic non-discrimination act works and what it means for your practice?

Check out this 2022 article in Canadian Family Physician

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