BRCA- patients might still have BRCA+ signature in their tumors!

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ChiSandy
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edited March 2017 in Genetic Testing

Just because your genetic testing (blood or saliva) came back negative for genetic mutations doesn't mean that BRCA mutations don't affect you:

BRCA+ signatures in up to half the tumors of some BRCA- patients?

The article on the GenomeWeb site, citing a study reported in Nature Today, suggests that more patients than previously thought might benefit from further tumor analysis and PARP-inhibitor therapy. Might there be additional criteria added to common tumor-cell genomic tests?

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