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Expanding Patient Access To Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Through Incentive Regimes, Megan K. Hart
Expanding Patient Access To Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Through Incentive Regimes, Megan K. Hart
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
It is estimated that 268,600 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 alone, and as many as 26,860 of these women could have developed breast cancer due to a genetic disposition.[1] While over one million women have undergone genetic testing to identify variations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, the test results are often ambiguous due to identified variations for which the breast cancer development risk is unknown.[2] A new technology known as CRISPR has the potential to change this state of uncertainty due to its capability to identify thousands of BRCA1 and 2 gene variations and …