Silent cancers in mothers can be detected by a new blood test that is meant to screen fetuses for genetic disorders like Down syndrome, according to a study out of Tufts Medical Center. Published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study looked into eight cases of abnormal test results that were caused by the mother’s cancer DNA in the samples, not by fetal defects.
“They said babies with the chromosomal issues they found in my sample typically don’t survive. I was freaking out. I didn’t know what was going on”, said one of the study’s participants, San Francisco resident Jenny Bernstein, 40.
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