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CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics Recruiting Docs for Survey on EGAPP Plans
June 25, 2009
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By Kirell Lakhman
CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics today said it is recruiting "health care providers from multiple disciplines" — genetic counselors, general practitioners, oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, gastroenterologists, nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants — "to participate in a health message survey for educational materials on the new EGAPP recommendations for Lynch Syndrome genetic testing.
The survey, to be conducted in July and August, will take about one hour to complete, OPHG says. Participants are asked to contact Sara Bedrosian.
The results should be interesting if there's any truth to what most medical societies, genetic test marketers, and individual physicians claim to be the average doc's knowledge of genetics: roughly none.
What is EGAPP Plans??
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The Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP) is a project launched in 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to put selected genetic tests to the test.
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