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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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Molecular screening platforms, multi-gene panel & NGS tests will re-imagine large population cancer treatment pathways – representing an opportunity of some $1.7 million mutations in 350 genes in a human body causing cancer make every cancer case a unique one. billion by the end of 2021. More than 1.2

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

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People who smoke are more likely to get lung cancer. Take breast cancer as an example. If you carry a mutation in one of the two BRCA genes that were discovered in the 1990s, you are at 5 to 10 times increased risk of breast cancer compared to a non-carrier. A poor lifestyle increases your risk of many common diseases.

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Health Provider News

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primary care providers $20M UMass Chan Medical School, MITRE plan to open assurance lab to test healthcare AI What happens if Saint Anne’s Hospital closes? cities; 2 others in Georgia are unhealthiest Channel 2 gets exclusive look inside new hospital for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Ga. s health, hospital chief says Raising Ky.’s