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Facing Breast Cancer Knowledge becomes power when you know your genetic background

News from the Department of Pathology, University of Stellenbosch New healthcare initiative: Pathology supported genetic testing

Molecular genetic tools can save one-in-three patients chemotherapy A startling experience is that while a large number of patients are saved from having to undergo chemotherapy, there are a small number of patients, who with conventional prognostication are thought not to need chemotherapy, but whose tumours then have a poor prognosis profile.