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Evaluation of familial cancer risk: it starts at www.screeningbc.ca

By Kristin Turner, MSc, CGC, CCGC on August 27, 2013

Identification of hereditary cancer families in BC is important to provide individuals at elevated cancer risk with appropriate screening and risk management recommendations.

Understanding breast cancer responsiveness

By Dr. Karen Gelmon on February 20, 2012

There has been an explosion of information about the genetics and molecular makeup of breast cancers with a heightened understanding that this is not one disease. Using newer sequencing technology, researchers have suggested 9 distinctive types of the disease.


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