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Patient's NIPT Cancer Dx Highlights Lack of Standards for Consent, Return of Secondary Findings

Mar 10, 2015
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Molika Ashford
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) - As a woman of "advanced maternal age," Eunice Lee, a practicing anesthesiologist, knew when she gave a blood sample for non-invasive prenatal testing that she might find out her 10-week old fetus had a chromosomal disorder. But she didn't imagine she could potentially learn something troubling about her own health.

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