“I have never had anyone suffer from cancer in my family till date” “My great Grandma, my Grandma and one of her siblings…they all died of cancer in my family” How Many of Us Believe that Family History Has a Role to Play in Predicting the Occurrence of Cancer in a Family? The answers would […]
Most of the cancers are caused by heritable mutation, which is passed on to you through your parents. If you have a familial history, you are at high risk of developing cancer. A genetic test can provide you the accurate measures of diagnosing your risk of developing cancer. There are few known specific cancer correlated […]
Why run the test twice!! As a test ordering individual, did you ever know, ‘How relevant your test results are? How precise the reports obtained are? In Science, it is believed that any observation obtained once is not precise, every observation has to be confirmed twice or more, to define the obtained result to be […]
You inherit all good and bad genes from your parents and carry it through generations. Genes are the instructor to the cell, the building block of the body that sometimes changes and cannot give the exact instructions; this change is termed as gene mutation. And cancer develops due to these gene mutations. An inherited mutation […]
In a treatment, how important is it to have the right diagnosis? What if the cancer that you are diagnosed with, has a risk associated with your family tree? With so much research going on in this space, how essential is it to know the detection and classification of the mutation variants? These are some […]