Cancer patients rarely use ancestry testing.

Published Date: 07 Jun 2023

According to a study that was published online on June 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with, few cancer patients in California and Georgia who were diagnosed between 2013 and 2019 underwent germline testing.

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