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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 2024).

 

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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

Family history is the first genetic test.

Check out this latest study trialing an innovative strategy for collecting family history in primary care. 

Carroll et al Ann Fam Med 2025;23:399-406.

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