Better Research Efforts Needed Among Racial/Ethnic Population

Smita K. Rao, MBBS, MS, et al gave an overview of implementing genetic counseling into oncology practices through telemedicine.

The association between use of a telegenetics service and lower likelihood of germline testing was statistically significant among black veterans with cancer, according to a recent retrospective cohort study.

Findings from a Nationally Representative study indicated that multispecialty, academically affiliated, urban cancer institutions had more access to genetic testing.

Researchers analyzed samples from 1,122 patients with advanced-stage NSCLC and discovered that 92.9% of tumors from harbored multiple changes in cancer-related genes in addition to the EGFR driver mutation.

Using a CRISPR gene editing technique, researchers have identified dozens of new genes that create T-cell resistant cancer.

Comprehensive sequencing for all breast cancer genes may provide complete relevant genetic information for Ashkenazi Jewish patients.