Posted on Aug 2, 2023
Cancer risk can lurk in our genes. So why don't more people get tested?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Health insurance providers have loosened their restrictions on whom they will cover for this kind of testing, which means more people than ever have access.
Nonetheless, "most people that should be getting the test are not," says Dr. Tuya Pal, a clinical geneticist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
It has been about three decades since the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2, she says, "and we still have only identified a fraction of the adult U.S. population that's at risk. A lot of people that are at risk remain unidentified."...
..."Health insurance providers have loosened their restrictions on whom they will cover for this kind of testing, which means more people than ever have access.
Nonetheless, "most people that should be getting the test are not," says Dr. Tuya Pal, a clinical geneticist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
It has been about three decades since the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2, she says, "and we still have only identified a fraction of the adult U.S. population that's at risk. A lot of people that are at risk remain unidentified."...
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