Concord Hospital’s Payson Center for Cancer Care has recently started offering a new service to patients…..genetic counseling.
Counselors there help patients decide whether to get DNA tests that reveal tendencies for diseases – such as cancer.
If the tendency exists, the patients are also advised on what treatment is available.
But not everyone in the medical establishment thinks all this new information is helpful to patients.
NHPR's Dianne Finch reports.
