Why doctors are urging women to redo early genetic tests for cancer…

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDoctors are urging women who took early genetic cancer tests years ago to take them again.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe technology now detects far more mutations, and that can be lifesaving information.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI love this. A second chance at a first impression. Your old result isn't wrong, it just hasn't had its glow-up.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA glow-up. Vera, the old test missed things. For years. Nobody told anyone.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBecause it was the best science at the time, and I'd like to finish a sentence.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish. Every result in a drawer is a clock nobody wound.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA clock nobody wound.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's all in the drawer, Hank. All of it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr it's an update. You skip the update on your phone for six years, and then you call that a mystery.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy phone has been asking to restart since the last election. I'm not frightened. I'm waiting.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAsk your doctor. That is the entire story. Ask, and bring your old paperwork.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSee, he can do it when he wants.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd retake mine, but it would only say tired. That was in the file already. Rex, you have the Hot Seat.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWho is sitting in it?