HOW CANCER GENE TESTING CAN BENEFIT PATIENTS

A revolution has taken place in the past few decades in our understand ing of the genetic origins of human cancer. In particular, genes impli cated in inherited susceptibility to forms of cancer are increasingly being identified and their mutations characterized. Many of these gene s are also involved in sporadic tumours of the same type, as well as a dditional tumour types. Understanding of these genes will therefore af fect an even greater number of patients.