GPs ‘should provide breast cancer tests’ - The Times 16th February 2008

Genetic screening for breast cancer should be carried out by family doctors so that women who have lost relatives to the disease do not have to wait to be referred to a specialist, a senior American doctor said yesterday. Funmi Olopade, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Centre, said that there was no longer any good reason for restricting tests for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes to a specialist oncology setting, as GPs now had enough information about the testing to advise women.

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