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Primary care doctors embrace genetic testing. (Susceptibility Testing for Cancer).
PHILADELPHIA -- More than a third of primary care physicians surveyed referred at least one patient for a genetic test of susceptibility to cancer in 1999 or 2000 in a sample of 433 local doctors.
In addition, 89% of the responding physicians said that they were interested in learning more about genetics tests for cancer susceptibility, Dr. Randa Sifri reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology.
Most of the test referrals that these physicians reported making were triggered by patient requests, said Dr. Sifri, a family physician at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
Dr. Sifri and her associates surveyed 726 primary care physicians on the provider panel of a large Philadelphia-area PPO in 2000. One of ...
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