{"id":151285,"date":"2025-09-12T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:57:24","slug":"study-identifies-barriers-to-germline-testing-in-ovarian-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151285\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Identifies Barriers to Germline Testing in Ovarian Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A practitioner\u2019s approach to germline testing for patients with ovarian cancer depended on each person\u2019s workflow, a new study found. This variation in approach results in \u201cpersistent barriers to testing,\u201d according to Gabriella Ficerai-Garland, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues, who presented the data as an abstract at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>About one-fifth of ovarian cancers are caused by a hereditary predisposition such as BRCA1\/2 mutations. Although all patients diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer should receive germline genetic testing, less than half of patients diagnosed in the US do.<\/p>\n<p>With this study, Ficerai-Garland and colleagues wanted to identify action areas to improve these testing rates. They conducted semi-structured individual and small group interviews with members of the Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Genetics offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A practitioner\u2019s approach to germline testing for patients with ovarian cancer depended on each person\u2019s workflow, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-151285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}