College of Medicine
Spiguel Lab
Led by Lisa Spiguel · Surgery (Surgical Oncology)
What we study
Recent student projects in this lab have studied breast cancer care, reviewing patient records to see how routine genetic testing offered by a surgeon was accepted and what share of patients had pathogenic variants.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
Current projects
Impact of Routine Genetic Testing in Breast Cancer Patients
The lab looked at records of breast cancer patients whose surgeon began offering genetic testing in 2019‑2020. They found 88.9% were offered testing, 83.9% accepted, 15% had pathogenic variants, and older patients were less likely to be offered or to accept testing, with no racial/ethnic differences.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 388
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
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