Jianfeng Xu, MD, DrPH

Jianfeng Xu, MD, DrPH, Vice President of Translational Research at NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore), the Ellrodt-Schweighauser Family Chair of Cancer Genomic Research, Director of the Program for Personalized Cancer Care (PPCC) at NorthShore, and a Research Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, discusses the role of genetic testing in prostate cancer risk identification. Dr. Xu discusses who is at elevated risk for prostate cancer, the relationship among three inherited risk factors (family history [FH], monogenic rare pathogenic mutations [RPMs], and polygenic genetic risk score [GRS]), the idea that monogenic and polygenic may be tested at the same time, key challenges for germline testing, and the improvement of current guidelines for prostate cancer early detection.