Genetic Testing in Women With Ovarian Cancer Helps to Determine Prognosis - The ASCO Post

Genetic Testing in Women With Ovarian Cancer Helps to Determine Prognosis - The ASCO Post

Genetic Testing in Women With Ovarian Cancer Helps to Determine Prognosis

By Chase Doyle
April 25, 2016
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These findings underscore the importance of genetic testing in all women with ovarian cancer. Clinical trials that focus only on high-grade serous histology are likely to be missing a significant fraction of homologous recombination–deficient carcinomas.

—Barbara Norquist, MD