Are genetic tests useful to predict cancer?

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The health secretary’s call for tests to be rolled out on NHS was met with controversy

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, this week shared his shock at discovering that he is at greater than average risk for prostate cancer, despite having no family history of the disease.

 

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As a Geneticist, duh!

Hancock spends more time promoting his friends selling apps and useless tests outside the NHS than he does on the the very real staffing crisis. About time Hadcocks relationship to these private companies is investigated, it all seems very corrupt.

Or idiots as in the pic?

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