Germline testing for prostate cancer: community urology perspective.

In an attempt to better understand how community urology practices would begin to incorporate hereditary testing in prostate cancer patients, we developed an eight-question on line survey to identify current testing patterns, utilization of genetic counseling and barriers that practices face. Fifty-two large community urology practices participated. A total of 32/52 (63%) of the responders were already offering testing to select patients. The big hurdles practices were concerned when initiating testing were fear of medical/legal liability (22%), concerns over reimbursement and out of pocket patient expense (20%) and the complexity, time and difficulty to enter a complete family history/pedigree into the EHR (18%).

The Canadian journal of urology. 2019 Oct [Epub]

Raoul S Concepcion

Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.