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? An overwhelming majority of eye cancer patients would answer yes, according to a new UCLA study published in the June edition of the Journal of Genetic Counseling. “Our goal was to explore what people with cancer want,” explained Dr.

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Filed under: Eye Health on June 4th, 2009