Precision public health in the era of genomics and big data

MC Roberts, KE Holt, G Del Fiol, AA Baccarelli… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Precision public health (PPH) considers the interplay between genetics, lifestyle and the
environment to improve disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment on a population level …

Point/counterpoint: is it time for universal germline genetic testing for all GI cancers?

H Hampel, MB Yurgelun - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Use of germline genetic testing among patients with cancer is increasing because of (1) the
availability of multigene panel tests that include multiple cancer susceptibility genes in a …

Germline testing in patients with breast cancer: ASCO–Society of Surgical Oncology Guideline

I Bedrosian, MR Somerfield, MI Achatz… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To develop recommendations for germline mutation testing for patients with
breast cancer. METHODS An ASCO–Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) panel convened to …

Universal germline genetic testing for hereditary cancer syndromes in patients with solid tumor cancer

ED Esplin, SM Nielsen, SL Bristow, JE Garber… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Historically, professional society guidelines have recommended limited genetic testing for
hereditary cancer syndromes (HCS) to patients with cancer thought to be at highest risk for …

Disparities in cancer genetics care by race/ethnicity among pan‐cancer patients with pathogenic germline variants

YL Liu, A Maio, Y Kemel, EE Salo‐Mullen… - Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Germline risk assessment is increasing as part of cancer care; however,
disparities in subsequent genetic counseling are unknown. Methods Pan‐cancer patients …

Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice

S Green, B Prainsack, M Sabatello - Medicine, Health Care and …, 2023 - Springer
Many countries currently invest in technologies and data infrastructures to foster precision
medicine (PM), which is hoped to better tailor disease treatment and prevention to individual …

[HTML][HTML] Nursing strategies to address health disparities in genomics-informed care: a scoping review

J Limoges, P Chiu, D Dordunoo… - JBI Evidence …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objective of this review was to map the available global evidence on
strategies that nurses can use to facilitate genomics-informed health care to address health …

The role of TSC2 in breast cancer: a literature review

QY Zhu, ZM He, WM Cao, B Li - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
TSC2 is a tumor suppressor gene as well as a disease-causing gene for autosomal
dominant disorder tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Research has found that some tumor …

Aligning germline cancer predisposition with tumor-based next-generation sequencing for modern oncology diagnosis, interception, and therapeutic development

TA Yap, ZK Stadler, LA Stout… - American Society of …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
In the era of precision medicine, genomic interrogation for identification of both germline and
somatic genetic alterations has become increasingly important. While such germline testing …

A multicenter study of clinical impact of variant of uncertain significance reclassification in breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer susceptibility genes

S Makhnoon, B Levin, M Ensinger, K Mattie… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Clinical interpretation of genetic test results is complicated by variants of
uncertain significance (VUS) that have an unknown impact on health but can be clarified …