Beyond the variant: hereditary cancer awareness in the multi-omics era
Julhash U Kazi, Ramin Massoumi · 2026
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Julhash U Kazi and Ramin Massoumi wrote a 2026 editorial arguing that awareness of inherited cancer must move past simply finding a gene variant. For years the focus sat on spotting family risk and offering counselling, screening, and prevention. The authors say the harder task now is explaining what a result means for each person and each family.
They point to multi-omics, the combined study of genes, RNA, proteins, and cell chemistry, as a bridge between inherited risk and action. One variant can lead to different cancers at different ages, and DNA alone cannot explain why. Reading several layers of biology together can show which pathways are active and where prevention or treatment might work. The editorial closes by tying awareness back to families, not just molecules.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Julhash U Kazi, Ramin Massoumi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |