Should Doctors Screen Embryos for Cancer

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The UK's fertility watchdog is considering whether embryo screening technology should be used to stop babies being born with a gene that might lead to cancer in later life.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said it wanted to hear what the public had to say about using fertility advances to screen out serious genetic disorders.

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Should Doctors Screen Embryos for Cancer

These include inherited breast cancer, inherited ovarian cancer and hereditary non polyposis colon cancer. But the issue is contr...

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