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CentoGene Breast Cancer Testing

Jan 29, 2016

CentoGene has launched CentoBreast, its genetic testing panel that covers almost all hereditary forms of breast cancer, regardless of specific tumor syndrome. The panel includes genes frequently reported in association with familial form of breast cancer: BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, PTEN, STK11, CDH1, PALB2, CHEK2, ATM, NBN, BARD1, BRIP1, and RAD51C. CentoBreast has a turnaround time of 10 working days and needs only 2μg DNA or 2 CentroCards, blood droplet sample collector.

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