{"id":114773,"date":"2020-10-20T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/genetic-testing-for-breast-cancer-reveals-rare-disorder"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:10:56","slug":"genetic-testing-for-breast-cancer-reveals-rare-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/genetic-testing-for-breast-cancer-reveals-rare-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Reveals Rare Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-testing-for-breast-cancer-reveals-rare-disorder2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An odd lump on Elizabeth Cowles Johnston\u2019s breast prompted a Friday morning call to her primary care physician <a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Andrews-Rebecca\">Rebecca Andrews<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/\">UConn Health.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Andrews quickly fit her in, and upon checking the lump sent her to <a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Merkulov-Aleksey\">Dr. Alex Merkulov,<\/a> Section Head of Women\u2019s Imaging at the <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/radiology\/your-visit\/locations-directions\/beekley-imaging-center\/\">Beekley Imaging Center at UConn Health<\/a> for a mammogram and ultrasound. The following Monday she had a biopsy of her breast and by that Wednesday she had the diagnosis of breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all very quick,\u201d says Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An odd lump on Elizabeth Cowles Johnston\u2019s breast prompted a Friday morning call to her primary care physician Rebecca Andrews at UConn Health. Dr. Andrews quickly fit her in, and upon checking the lump sent her to Dr. Alex Merkulov, Section Head of Women\u2019s Imaging at the Beekley Imaging Center at UConn Health for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}