Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Patients: Is Everyone Who Needs a Test Getting a Test?Annals of Surgical Oncology -doi:10.1245/s10434-020-09180-4Danielle R. HellerSection of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USAAnn-Kristin U. Friedrich...
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Genetic testingfor BRCA1 and BRCA2—the so-called “breast cancer genes”—has become more mainstream. But, confusion still surrounds who should get tested, what the results really mean and what happens if you test positive. WhileAngelina Jolie’s high-profilepreventive mastectomya decade ago put...
Perceived risk of breast cancer, or genetic mutations associated with it may also predict decisions related to testing forBRCA1/2. Prior work has found women who perceive themselves to be at greater risk of developing the disease to be more likely to test forBRCA1/2, and at a higher price...
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This week, the FDA authorized a 23andMe test as the first at-home test for genetic breast cancer risk. Here's what to know before you try it.
Hall, whose mother had breast cancer at age 50, had already undergone genetic testing for the BRCA gene in her 20s, which came back negative. She also had never had a mammogram until this year, after taking the risk assessment test. ...
Published during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the study lends new insights into how women cope with the results of BRCA testing for hereditary breast cancer—an increasingly used genetic test in which an "inconclusive" result is common. ...
Q: How do you decide whether someone is a good candidate for genetic testing? A: Say a patient came in to see me and her mother hadbreast cancerat the age of 38 and her mother's two sisters as well, and the grandmother had breast cancer, too. That would be a sign that that famil...