News tagged with journal of genetic counseling
Preventive cancer surgeries save women's lives
A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more likely to develop lethal breast or ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Cancer patients want genetic testing to predict metastasis risk
If you had cancer and a genetic test could predict the risk of the tumor spreading aggressively, would you want to know - even if no treatments existed to help you?
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Consumers desire more genetic testing, but not designer babies
A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found a high desire for additional genetic testing among consumers for life altering and threatening medical conditions including mental retardation, blindness, deafness, ...
Jan 26, 2009 |
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