Tag Archives: genetic testing
New literacy challenge: genetic knowledge is poor even among well educated
Focusing on the most relevant gene variants in inherited breast and ovarian cancer
Modern sequencing technology (which has begun to become adopted in clinical labs) can provide invaluable genetic information of individuals, such as those with a family history of early onset breast cancer. However, this information also results in
Type of breast cancer provides clues to genetic susceptibility
Breast cancer is a common disease affecting 1 in 11 women in the UK but like many common cancers incidence increases with increasing age. Only 1 in 1,700 women younger than 30 and 1 in 228 women