Kenneth Offit

Kenneth Offit (born February 19, 1955) is an American cancer geneticist and oncologist known for his discoveries with respect to the genetic bases of breast, colorectal, and lymphoid cancers. He is currently Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service and the Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Offit is also a member of the Program in Cancer Biology and Genetics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute and a Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was previously a member of both the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute and the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention working group of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Offit has garnered numerous honors for his contributions to the prevention and management of cancer. In 2013, he was selected for the American Society of Clinical Oncology-American Cancer Society Award and Lecture. In 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine and appointed to the Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health. In 2018, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2023, he was awarded the University of Pennsylvania's Basser Global Prize for BRCA1 and BRCA2-related research and an Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his national professional and civic contributions. In 2025, Offit was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Genetics healthcare providers' experiences counseling patients with results from consumer genomic testing

    Genetics healthcare providers' experiences counseling patients with results from consumer genomic testing by Magan Trottier, Dina Green, Hannah Ovadia, Amanda Catchings, Julia Gruberg, Victoria Groner, Catherine Fanjoy, Sita Dandiker, Kathleen Blazer, Jada G. Hamilton, Kenneth Offit

    Published 2024-08-01
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    Biologically targeted discovery-replication scan identifies G×G interaction in relation to risk of Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma

    Biologically targeted discovery-replication scan identifies G×G interaction in relation to risk of Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma by Li Yan, Qianchuan He, Shiv P. Verma, Xu Zhang, Ann-Sophie Giel, Carlo Maj, Kathryn Graz, Elnaz Naderi, Jianhong Chen, Mourad Wagdy Ali, Puya Gharahkhani, Xiang Shu, Kenneth Offit, Pari M. Shah, Hans Gerdes, Daniela Molena, Amitabh Srivastava, Stuart MacGregor, Claire Palles, René Thieme, Michael Vieth, Ines Gockel, Thomas L. Vaughan, Johannes Schumacher, Matthew F. Buas

    Published 2025-04-01
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    Health outcomes, utility and costs of returning incidental results from genomic sequencing in a Canadian cancer population: protocol for a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial

    Health outcomes, utility and costs of returning incidental results from genomic sequencing in a Canadian cancer population: protocol for a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial by Mark Robson, Christine Elser, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Melyssa Aronson, Salma Shickh, Marc Clausen, Chloe Mighton, Mariana Gutierrez Salazar, Kathleen-Rose Zakoor, Rita Kodida, Emma Reble, Andrea Eisen, Seema Panchal, Tracy Graham, Susan Randall Armel, Chantal F Morel, Ramzi Fattouh, Emily Glogowski, Kasmintan A Schrader, Jada G Hamilton, Kenneth Offit, June C Carroll, Raymond H Kim, Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Kevin E Thorpe, Andreas Laupacis, Yvonne Bombard

    Published 2019-10-01
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    Polygenic score distribution differences across European ancestry populations: implications for breast cancer risk prediction

    Polygenic score distribution differences across European ancestry populations: implications for breast cancer risk prediction by Kristia Yiangou, Nasim Mavaddat, Joe Dennis, Maria Zanti, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Bolla, Mustapha Abubakar, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Annelie Augustinsson, Adinda Baten, Sabine Behrens, Marina Bermisheva, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Katarzyna Białkowska, Nicholas Boddicker, Clara Bodelon, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Kristen D. Brantley, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Nicola J. Camp, Federico Canzian, Jose E. Castelao, Melissa H. Cessna, Jenny Chang-Claude, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Wendy K. Chung, NBCS Collaborators, Sarah V. Colonna, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Alison M. Dunning, Diana M. Eccles, A. Heather Eliassen, Christoph Engel, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Lin Fritschi, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Anna González-Neira, Pascal Guénel, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Vikki Ho, James Hodge, Antoinette Hollestelle, Ellen Honisch, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Sacha Howell, Anthony Howell, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab Investigators, Simona Jakovchevska, Anna Jakubowska, Helena Jernström, Nichola Johnson, Rudolf Kaaks, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Cari M. Kitahara, Stella Koutros, Vessela N. Kristensen, James V. Lacey, Diether Lambrechts, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Annika Lindblom, Michael Lush, Arto Mannermaa, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Usha Menon, Rachel A. Murphy, Heli Nevanlinna, Nadia Obi, Kenneth Offit, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Cheng Peng, Paolo Peterlongo, Guillermo Pita, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Katri Pylkäs, Paolo Radice, Muhammad U. Rashid, Gad Rennert, Eleanor Roberts, Juan Rodriguez, Atocha Romero, Efraim H. Rosenberg, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Christopher G. Scott, Xiao-Ou Shu, Melissa C. Southey, Jennifer Stone, Jack A. Taylor, Lauren R. Teras, Irma van de Beek, Walter Willett, Robert Winqvist, Wei Zheng, Celine M. Vachon, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Per Hall, Robert J. MacInnis, Roger L. Milne, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Jacques Simard, Antonis C. Antoniou, Douglas F. Easton, Kyriaki Michailidou

    Published 2024-12-01
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