Cancer patients want genetic testing to predict metastasis risk

Monday, June 1, 2009 - 17:42 in Health & Medicine

If you had cancer and a genetic test could predict the risk of the tumor spreading aggressively, would you want to know -- even if no treatments existed to help you? An overwhelming majority of eye cancer patients would answer yes, according to a new UCLA study published in the June edition of the Journal of Genetic Counseling.

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