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September 22, 2006

GENETIC TESTING

If you could discover your chances of developing breast cancer, colon cancer, or Huntington's disease, would you want to know?  Genetic testing has expanded the possibilities of preventative medicine but also created new challenges in what to do with this knowledge.  Today on House Calls, we talk with Dr. Virginia Proud, Medical Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, and Dr. Michael Murray of Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, about the wide world of genetic testing.

www.genetests.org
Genetics Home Reference

State Cancer Legislative Database Program

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