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The New Biomarkers Impacting Cancer Care

When my healthcare provider (HCP) told me I needed HER2 and BRCA testing, I nodded politely like I totally understood everything she was saying. But, in reality, I had no clue what those letters meant. BRCA and HER2 were just part of the acronym soup dumped in my lap after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. But I quickly learned that biomarkers such as BRCA and HER2 are important pieces to the complex cancer puzzle when it comes to understanding and treating the disease. Cancer biomarkers and the importance of biomarker testing Cancer biomarkers are proteins, genes and other substances that...