Background: Genomics has growing relevance to palliative care, where testing largely
benefits relatives. Integrating genomics into palliative care has not received the critical …

Genetic counselling and testing have utility for people with palliative care needs and their
families. However, genetic and palliative care health professionals have described …

Genetic information can provide clinical benefits to families of palliative patients. However,
integration of genetics into mainstream medicine has not focused on palliative populations …

In an ideal world, palliative care specialists would encounter cancer and other patients with
all their germline genetic testing done and all their families' questions answered …

Palliative care may be an opportunity to discuss cancer family history and familial cancer
risks with patients' relatives. It may also represent the last opportunity to collect, from dying …

As genomic testing moves into routine healthcare, including palliative care, understanding
the needs of health professionals will maximise the benefits of genomics while minimising …

People with an inherited condition who receive palliative care may be missing out on the
opportunity to store a DNA sample for future use by their families and offspring. A DNA …

Problem: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for an
estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. That same …

Background: Many tools have been developed for the standardized collection of cancer
family history (FH). However, it remains unclear which tools have the potential to help health …

Palliative care may be an opportunity to discuss cancer family history and familial cancer
risks with patients' relatives. It may also represent the last opportunity to collect, from dying …