Expansion of genetic testing to the general population is one of the ambitions of the UK Government's 2025 10-year Health Plan for England, as part of a strategy for transition from “sickness to prevention”.1 Identification of individuals at increased cancer risk due to pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes, leading to targeted screening and prioritisation of risk reduction strategies is…
[Comment] Implications of indiscriminate testing for cancer susceptibility genes
The Lancet Oncology | | Alice Garrett
Topics: prevention