press release: Women's College Hospital (Toronto) offers Jewish women genetic screening for breast cancer

“Our study identified two major concerns with current breast cancer screening guidelines,” says Dr. Kelly Metcalfe, adjunct scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute and associate professor at the University of Toronto. “The first is that over half of the women we identified with a mutation would never have known that they were at an increased risk of cancer because they were not eligible for genetic testing outside of this study. The second concern was that although 45 per cent of the women with mutations were eligible for genetic testing based on their family history of cancer, none were referred by their health-care provider for screening. "