questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of recommending screening for the BRCA 1 gene for women who have a mother who has died from (a) breast and (b) ovarian cancers.
answerText: The current eligibility criteria for genetic testing are set out in the NHS National Genomic Test Directory. The aim is to offer individuals at higher risk of developing cancer (those with pathogenic variants in their genes) clinical pathways to support t...
heading: Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer