Genetic predictions fail to pass the test

Although genomic testing is making ground in China, many experts are warning that the procedures are flawed, and that patients are failing to act on the results. Shan Juan reports.

When Lily (not her real name) received the results of a genomic test she had taken, she was relieved and delighted to discover that it had ruled out the possibility of a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer.

The 30-year-old real estate agent in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, had feared she would develop the disease as a result of her fast-paced working life and hyperplasia, a precancerous condition that was discovered in her breast last year.