# OnCo record idea-prev-cascade-direct-contact-relatives (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-cascade-direct-contact-relatives/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-prev-cascade-direct-contact-relatives" ;
  schema:name "Let clinics contact relatives directly when a cancer gene is found"@en ;
  schema:description "When someone tests positive for a BRCA or Lynch mutation, relatives are told only if the patient passes the message on. Most do not. Letting clinics contact relatives directly, with consent, could double testing."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-cascade-direct-contact-relatives/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.73.6314> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/germline-testing/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/targets/brca/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/germline-vs-somatic/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-hereditary-risk/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-childers-j-clin-oncol/> .