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Dr. Alexis Rompré-Brodeur on germline testing in renal cell carcinoma

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Alexis Rompré-Brodeur, MD, a urologic oncologist at McGill University discusses germline testing in patients with renal cell carcinoma. Rompré-Brodeur presented the study, “Germline testing in renal cell carcinoma: can enrichment features help predict germline alterations?” at the 2022 AUA Annual Meeting.

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