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NDPH Seminar: Translating genomics into population-based cancer screening strategies – opportunities and challenges

Nora Pashayan, University College, London

Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 12pm to 1pm

Richard Doll Lecture Theatre

Nora PashayanNora Pashayan 

Personalised or risk-stratified screening offers opportunities to improve the efficiency of cancer screening programmes and reduce their adverse consequences.  Polygenic risk score alone or combined with non-genetic risk factors could be used for risk-stratification for risk-tailored screening.  Developing and implementing such risk-stratified programmes would require coordination of multi-disciplinary efforts.

Further information.

 

 Professor Sir Richard DollProfessor Sir Richard Doll

 

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