Your Genes Shouldn’t Be Patented: The Urgent Fight Over PERA with FORCE Public Policy Leader, Lisa Schlager
Episode Summary This special, urgent episode of The Positive Gene Podcast steps outside our normal publishing schedule because the stakes could not be higher. Congress is considering the Patent Eligib...
3 Des 202541min
What We're Not Saying: Hereditary Cancer, Prevention and Public Health with Genetic Counselor, Jennifer Thompson
Episode Summary In today’s conversation, we dig into the part of cancer conversations that rarely makes headlines - hereditary cancer risk, prevention, and the systemic barriers that keep people from...
21 Nov 202540min
Hereditary Cancer Risk Through an LGBTQ+ Lens with Genetic Counselor Maddie Williamson
Episode Summary In this episode of The Positive Gene Podcast, Maddie Williamson, a genetic counselor and BRCA1 carrier, joins host Sara Kavanaugh to discuss what it means to navigate hereditary cancer...
5 Nov 202546min
Living Proof with Author Tiffany Graham Charkosky: Love, Loss, and Lynch Syndrome
In this moving episode of The Positive Gene Podcast, host Sara Kavanaugh sits down with author Tiffany Graham Charkosky, whose forthcoming memoir Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy shares he...
13 Okt 202555min
Living Through Loss, Finding Strength: Peter Cornell on Music, Family, and Male Breast Cancer
Earlier this year, musician Peter Cornell — brother of the late Chris Cornell — received a diagnosis no man expects: breast cancer. Testing revealed he carries a CHEK2 mutation, which increases the ri...
28 Sep 202546min
Graceful Grit: Mindfulness Tools for Scanxiety, Uncertainty, and Everyday Courage with Lisa Jacobs, Founder of Practice to the Point
Episode Overview Season changes can stir up a lot - especially if you’re living with hereditary cancer risk. In this conversation, Lisa Jacobs shares her framework of “graceful grit” - meeting hard mo...
5 Sep 202546min
Telling Our Stories Online: Researching ‘Previvorship’ in the Social Media Era
Summary In this episode of The Positive Gene Podcast, host Sara Kavanaugh takes the mic on the road in London with Dr. Stefania Vicari and Dr. Hannah Ditchfield of the University of Sheffield. Togethe...
21 Aug 20251h 10min
Running Through Risk: Kristina Coccoluto on BRCA, Purpose and Marathon Milestones
Episode Summary: In this Season 3 premiere of The Positive Gene Podcast, host Sara Kavanaugh sits down with Kristina Coccoluto — a BRCA1 previvor, Abbott World Marathon Majors Six Star Finisher, and p...
1 Aug 202556min
