Cancer treatment is becoming more personalized. By considering a patient's unique genetic and molecular profile, along with their lifestyle and environmental factors, doctors can make more accurate ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...

For Josh Henderson, 66, of Olympia, getting genetic testing was a no-brainer. “The first time I came to Fred Hutch, my oncologist suggested it,” said the retired IT manager who received a metastatic ...

The FDA could approve the first blood test that can detect multiple cancers, around the end of the year, setting the stage ...

A genetic test developed by researchers at Broad Clinical Labs and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is now enabling a large, nationwide clinical trial aimed at improving health care for ...

Current National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for germline testing are complex and often miss patients with cancer susceptibility. We evaluated results of universal germline genetic ...

Of the many advances in science and technology over the past 25 years, genetic testing is arguably one of the most notable. Once a rare part of health care, it is now becoming much more common. It’s ...

Hundreds of thousands of people diagnosed with cancer are still alive today, but were never genetically tested, either because testing was not available or was not routinely offered at the time of ...

You might hear about your risk of ovarian cancer through an aunt, mother, sister or grandmother. For some, there are no signs of hereditary cancer in the family, but genetic testing still reveals a ...

A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...