# OnCo record idea-prev-traceback-deceased-probands (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-traceback-deceased-probands/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-prev-traceback-deceased-probands" ;
  schema:name "Go back to families of women who died of ovarian cancer and offer BRCA testing"@en ;
  schema:description "Women who died of ovarian cancer without ever having BRCA testing leave relatives who are otherwise unreachable. Retesting archived tumour tissue and contacting families, piloted on 2,000 cases from the past 15 years, would find carriers before they develop cancer; US pilots show it is feasible and ethically acceptable."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-traceback-deceased-probands/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.73.6314> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/ovarian/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/germline-testing/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/targets/brca/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-hereditary-risk/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-childers-j-clin-oncol/> .