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Screening younger women for hereditary cancers may be cost effective

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Population-wide screening for genetic variants linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may be cost effective in women between the ages of 20 and 35, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. However, screening for older women was not cost-effective, the researchers found, since the majority of risk-reducing mastectomies and salpingo-oophorectomies occur...