Genetic screening offers cancer survivors personalized care and family risk assessment

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Hundreds of thousands of cancer survivors were never genetically tested, missing opportunities for personalized care and family risk assessment. A UK study found that a simplified, home-based saliva test identified inherited cancer-related gene variants in 8.6% of breast cancer survivors and 10.1% of ovarian cancer survivors. This approach, the BRCA-DIRECT pathway, shows potential for scalable, efficient genetic testing without increasing healthcare professional workload, with plans to expand to other cancer types.


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