The trial will assess if direct outreach by healthcare providers increases cascade genetic testing among first-degree ...

HELOISE: Phase IIIb Randomized Multicenter Study Comparing Standard-of-Care and Higher-Dose Trastuzumab Regimens Combined With Chemotherapy as First-Line Therapy in Patients With Human Epidermal ...

Allison W. Kurian offers insight on using multigene panel testing to discover breast and ovarian cancer risks that may have otherwise went undetected. Multigene panel sequencing detected ovarian ...

Patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who tested positive for driver gene alteration had longer overall survival when given targeted therapy. Multigene testing should be utilized more to ...

Comprehensive genetic testing using multigene testing panels for prostate cancer can arm genetic counselors with the information they need to guide precision therapy, even in men with early stage ...

Multigene tests are an integral component of new policy initiatives such as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Precision Medicine Initiative and the US National Cancer Institute Cancer ...

Current guidelines for genetic testing in women with breast cancer are based on established family history or clinical guidelines but miss approximately 50% of carriers who fall below the clinical ...

(HealthDay)—Unselected, multigene testing for all patients with breast cancer would be cost-effective in the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in JAMA ...

A multigene panel test could be a useful diagnostic tool to help clinicians identify patients with a hereditary kidney cancer syndrome, according to the results of a study published in Cancer. "We ...

A study by researchers at three academic medical centers has shown that screening women with a suspected risk of hereditary breast or ovarian cancer for risk-associated genes other than BRCA1 and 2 ...