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Hereditary Cancer Risk Variants Found in Significant Subset of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

Aug 30, 2019
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NEW YORK – Investigators from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center have demonstrated that there is a potential benefit to doing widespread hereditary cancer risk testing in individuals with metastatic breast cancer.

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