Black patients helped by precision medicine navigators were six times more likely to receive genetic testing than those not seen by a navigator. After navigators were established in a large health care system, the proportion of Black patients referred for genomic testing rose from 19% to 58%. Genomic testing rates also rose for lower-income patients …
Researchers pooled data from 10 genome-wide association studies, virtually all of the existing data on genetic risk for prostate cancer in men of African ancestry for a meta-analysis. The data were collected in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean on 19,378 men with prostate cancer and 61,620 healthy controls. The study identified nine new …
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