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Kaiser to routinely offer new DNA testing for cervical cancer in northern California.

Women's Health Weekly

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2004 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Kaiser Permanente will routinely offer hundreds of thousands of women in northern California newly approved DNA testing to more accurately predict which women are at risk of developing cervical cancer.

The new DNA test, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, based in part on a cooperative research study by the National Cancer Institute and Kaiser Permanente, will be routinely offered by this spring to women 30 and over in Kaiser Permanente's northern California region. Kaiser Permanente has about 781,145 female members in northern California between the ages of 30-64.

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