MYRIAD WOMEN'S HEALTH, INC.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Screening helps you plan and prepare Diagnostic tests such as chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis can determine if an inherited disease was passed on to your child. Whether or not you decide to pursue diagnostic testing, there are options you can discuss with your healthcare provider if you find out you and your partner are both carriers for the same inherited condition. Counsyl is in-network with most major insurance plans. We also have financial assistance and payment plans to help you handle a high deductible if you have one. The Foresight Carrier Screen must be ordered by a healthcare provider. A small sample of your saliva or blood is all that’s needed and results are ready in about two weeks on average. Counsyl supports you throughout the screening process, from getting an estimate, to genetic counseling, and billing. A series of educational videos and an on-demand or scheduled consultation with one of our board-certified genetic counselors is available with every Foresight Carrier Screen. Genetic counselors are specially-educated professionals who can provide the personalized help you may need to better understand your results and make informed choices. Whether you are currently pregnant or just thinking about it, consider talking to your healthcare provider about carrier screening. He or she can help you understand more about how screening can help you have a healthy family. We’re here to help The Counsyl Reliant Cancer Screen can help determine if you carry a mutation that may put you at an increased risk for cancer. The cancer patterns in your family will help your provider determine your risks and options. Before your next appointment, try to gather whatever information you can about your relatives on both sides of your family who have been affected by cancer. If you or anyone in your family has had colon polyps (growths found during a colonoscopy), your provider will want to know about that too If you think anyone in your family might have already had genetic screening for cancer, it’s helpful if you can provide that information, including the genes they were tested for and the results A negative result from genetic screening does not mean that you will never develop cancer. You may still be at risk, especially if you have a strong personal or family history of the disease. If you have a negative result, your healthcare provider may still advise that additional cancer screening is appropriate for you and your family. Sometimes a change is identified in a gene, but there is limited scientific evidence that it increases risk for cancer. These types of changes are called variants of uncertain significance and they are quite common. Professional societies recommend that variants of uncertain significance be treated as negative results when it comes to making clinical decisions. A positive result is not a diagnosis of cancer, nor is it a guarantee that you will develop the disease. A positive result means only that there is a mutation in one of the genes tested that is known to cause an increased chance of developing one or more types of cancer over your lifetime. With this knowledge, you’ll have the chance to work with your healthcare provider to develop a prevention and/or treatment program. The Reliant Cancer Screen can look at more than 25 genes associated with risk for many different kinds of cancer, such as breast, ovarian, colon, pancreatic, prostate, thyroid, and others. Your healthcare provider can help you determine which combination of genes you should be screened for based on your personal and family cancer history. You may already know that one type of cancer runs in your family and be taking appropriate steps to reduce your risk. However, finding out you have a gene mutation associated with hereditary cancer can alert you and your healthcare provider to other cancer risks you may be facing. For example, a strong family history of breast cancer could be due to a gene mutation that also increases risk for ovarian cancer. If you are found to have a mutation associated with hereditary cancer, there are established guidelines to help you and your healthcare provider determine the appropriate next steps. Cancer screening tests can help catch the disease when it is at an earlier, more treatable stage. Based on your results, your healthcare provider can tailor your screening regimen. For instance, if your risk for breast cancer is elevated, you may be offered more frequent mammograms or breast MRIs. Knowing your risk may help you If you have a positive result, there is a chance that your parents, siblings, children, and extended family members will have the same mutation. By sharing your information, you could provide your loved ones with vital information for their own health. Counsyl is in-network with most major insurance plans. We also have financial assistance and payment plans to help you handle a high deductible if you have one. The Reliant Cancer Screen must be ordered by a healthcare provider. A small sample of your saliva or blood is all that’s needed and results are ready in A series of educational videos and an on-demand or scheduled consultation with one of our board-certified genetic counselors is available with every Reliant Cancer Screen. Genetic counselors are specially-educated professionals who can provide the personalized help you may need to better understand your results and make informed choices. If you are thinking about pursuing hereditary cancer screening, consider talking to your healthcare provider. He or she can help you understand more about how screening can help you determine your risk. We’re here to help Rishi’s focus is bringing together software with the human touch to make genetic screening a routine part of clinical care. His expertise is taking traditionally complex systems and making them simple, scalable and accessible. Prior to Counsyl, he cofounded Voltage Security, a cryptography and data security startup which was acquired by HP Enterprise (NYSE: HPE). As the head of Counsyl’s engineering and product development teams, he has built a platform for modern diagnostic lab services including on-demand genetic counseling, automated results delivery, clinical interpretation, medical billing and lab information management. Rishi holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University.