Underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in cascade testing for hereditary cancer syndromes

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Cascade genetic testing is the process of extending genetic testing to at-risk blood relatives of individuals (called “probands”) found to carry cancer predisposition germline pathogenic gene variants. Cascade testing is critical as relatives found to carry a pathogenic gene variant have the opportunity to pursue targeted cancer risk reduction and early detection, decreasing cancer-associated morbidity and...

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