Newborn screening for cancer risk could save lives. Should it be done?

Screening that IDs mutations in genes linked to cancer could give doctors a head start on treatment

A health care provider wearing blue gloves presses a newborn baby's heel to a card.

Newborns in the United States are screened for dozens of conditions using blood taken from a heel prick shortly after birth. But today’s screenings don’t look for cancer risk.

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Daniel Oakes was 2½ years old when his mother noticed an unusual glow in his eye.