Racial Differences in the use of Genetic Testing among Patients with ...

Few patients receive recommended genetic testing after cancer ...

The study uncovered racial and ethnic disparities. Among all patients with male breast, female breast and ovarian cancer — only 25% of Asian, ...

Genetic Testing Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute

Genetic testing for inherited cancer risk is different from genetic testing of tumors, which is sometimes used to guide treatment. Tumor ...

Eugenics and Scientific Racism

The Nazi German racial state between 1933 and 1945 used its ... use in the context of in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnoses ...

Study finds Black patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have ...

The researchers found that mutations to the KRAS and APC genes were more frequent in Black patients (53% and 85%) than white patients (27% and ...

The quagmire of race, genetic ancestry, and health disparities - JCI

The validity and use of this “race”-based correction has been questioned as it can delay treatment in people with African ancestry (17), who ...

The Cultural Lens of Genomics | OJIN

(2004) examined attitudes about genetic technology and potential barriers to genetic testing held by three ethnic-racial groups: African Americans, non-Hispanic ...

Racial Disparities in Ion Channelopathies and Inherited ...

African American/Black subjects are disproportionally affected by CVD, including cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, thus highlighting ...

RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC TESTING ...

Of 2,909 patients included, 1433 (47%) utilized PGT and 1476 (49%) did not. Hispanic patients utilized PGT significantly less (41%, 66/162) than ...

Race, Genetics, and Genetics Education - ELSIhub

... people conceptualize the relationship between race and genetics, for better or worse. ... Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists ...

Racial Disparities in Cancer Outcomes, Screening, and Treatment

Other racial/ethnic groups had lower incidence rates, particularly AIAN people, whose new female breast cancer rate was roughly half the rate ...

Racial disparities in genetic testing in children with pediatric ...

For the purpose of this study, we defined disparity as patients of different ethnic backgrounds receiving different rates of genetic testing despite similar ...

Differences Between African American and White Research ...

Genetic susceptibility testing for common diseases is expanding, but little is known about race group differences in test perceptions. The ...

Overcoming Racial Disparities in Genetic Testing

In a new article published in Everyday Health, experts spoke about the disparities Black Americans face when diagnosed with ovarian cancer…

Racial disparities in BRCA testing and cancer risk management ...

Furthermore, our results demonstrate lower genetic testing rates among ... of BRCA1/2 testing among U.S. primary care physicians. Am J Prev ...

The Influence of Health Care Policies and Health Care System ...

Armstrong, Racial differences in the use of BRCA12 testing among women ... Zimmerman, Racial differences in beliefs about genetic screening among patients ...

Race & Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning Racism

Presented by Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH (University of California San Francisco), as part of the 2022 FDA CERSI Lecture Series on March 8, ...

Study Finds Susceptibility Gene Variations by Race/Ethnicity in Early ...

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Andreana N. Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, discussed data from a study which found racial and ethnic ...

Breast Cancer: Screening - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

To achieve the benefit of screening and mitigate disparities in breast cancer mortality by race ... genetic counseling, and genetic testing ...

Differences between African American and white research ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate race group differences in knowledge about and attitudes towards genetic testing prior to receiving ...

Genealogical DNA test - Wikipedia

... ethnic mixture of an individual. Since different testing companies use different ethnic reference groups and different matching algorithms, ethnicity ...