Bahrain’s healthcare system must expand access to genetic counselling and testing, researchers have said, after a new study found that nearly 40 per cent of women tested for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer carried high-risk genetic mutations.
The study, titled ‘The spectrum of genetic mutations among patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer’ was authored by a team of researchers from the Health Ministry and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain), including Amani Al Hajeri, Amna Al Awadhi, Nitya Kumar and Ghufran Jassim.
“In this study, we aimed to identify and describe the high-risk pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations in a cohort of 160 Bahraini patients who underwent genetic testing for hereditary cancer susceptibility genes,” researchers noted in the abstract.
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