Colon Cancer (Screening)

People Lean Toward Genetic Testing, Risk Aside

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 3rd, 1999

A survey of people having one or more close relatives with colon cancer has found that those without significant family histories of the disease were just as eager to undergo gene testing for colon cancer as those with multiple affected relatives, even though most knew little or nothing about gene testing for colon cancer.

The study appeared in the April 1999, issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Lead author Gloria M. Petersen, PhD, associate professor, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, said, "Surprisingly, interest in gene testing was high regardless of the number of relatives with colon cancer. And whereas 70.3...

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