A key breast cancer test can no longer be done in B.C. because an American company has the gene patent.Utah-based Myriad Genetics Inc. has put a patent on two genes that can signal whether a woman may develop hereditary breast cancer.Dr. Simon Sutcliffe, who runs the B.C. Cancer Agency, said 200 of the tests are now being routed annually to Ontario, which is ignoring the patent.The agency used to do its own tests until the B.C. government recently ordered it to stop after legal threats by Myriad.
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