With insurance companies using genetic information to set prices and policies, advocates say the need for protection against genetic discrimination is ‘urgent’
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After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene.
“I thought, ‘I need to know.’ Hereditary cancer can develop at any point in your life and you have a 70% likelihood that it’ll develop,” the Brisbane PhD candidate says.
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