Background: There is limited research examining demographic, disease-related, and social factors that may influence veterans’ participation in germline genetic testing. This study sought to identify ...

A prospective trial found constitutional pathogenic variants in about 10 percent of solid tumor patients screened through ...

From 7% to nearly 9% of patients with advanced cancer were found to harbor a germline variant with targeted therapeutic actionability in the first study of its kind. The study involved 11,974 patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients with cancer who have genetic variants linked to their disease view it as their responsibility to ...

Background Tumour testing for microsatellite instability (MSI) or mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR) is used to screen for ...

Comprehensive somatic CGP at diagnosis enables identification of actionable alterations, therapeutic targets, resistance mutations, and clinical trial eligibility, tightening alignment between tumor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly all individuals who self-navigated the entire online platform completed germline testing. The platform ...

Bottom line: Universal germline genetic testing of nearly 40,000 patients with solid tumors detected a substantial proportion of inherited gene variants that would have been missed by the standard ...

During the Miami Breast Cancer Conference and Educated Patient® Breast Cancer Summit, one expert stressed the importance of genetic testing for BRCA mutations. All patients who receive a diagnosis of ...

Ms. Charité Ricker, MS, CGC and Dr. Nadine Tung, MD, FASCO share updates from the new ASCO guideline on selection of germline genetic testing panels in patients with cancer. They discuss highlights on ...

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Additional education on tumor testing and PARP inhibitor therapy is warranted for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to Neal Shore, MD, FACS. Real-world data ...