Biotech Values

[genisi]

BRCA testing

Dewophile, being a geneticist I know the figures by heart. I know women with positive BRACAnalysis tests have an 82% risk of developing breast cancer and a 54% risk of developing ovarian cancer. If asked, I tell asymptomatic subjects that the test will help them making treatment decisions that can reduce the risk for carriers of gene mutations to develop cancer. Most choose not to be tested but to be monitored more closely. That's why I am not surprised MYGN has hard times selling the test in the OB/GYN
market and think gyns and their unaffected patients need a lot more education.