Titlebook: Cancer Genetics for the Clinician; Gail L. Shaw Book 1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 BRCA.cancer.genetics.ovarian cance

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Testing Minors for Inherited Cancer Risk,ity, though not a certainty, of developing these dreaded diseases.. These and other molecular genetic tests are now used for determining the genetic status of current patients as well as for pre-conception and prenatal testing for the purpose of avoiding the birth of children destined to suffer serious genetic diseases.

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Insurance Issues in Genetic Testing for Cancer,ntial for conflict among private, governmental, and commercial interests has raised concern over maintaining the confidentiality of such information and preventing “genetic discrimination” while preserving access to these data for treatment, research, and reimbursement.

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Components of a Genetic Cancer Risk Clinic,ty genes such as .. One might innocently assume that the genetic test is as easy to order as filling out your standard requisition form for a blood count. This is not consistent with current practices. The daunting ethical, medical, legal, social, and technological challenges must be addressed. In o

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Genetic Counseling for the Individual with Inherited Cancer Susceptibility,ated, confer a significantly increased risk of cancer. Additional genes that confer a more modest risk of cancer are also being discovered. Together with improved understandings of environmental risk factors, increasingly accurate predictions of individual cancer risk will become available. Further,

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Testing Minors for Inherited Cancer Risk,f genetic disease. These powers now include a spectrum of genetic tests that can predict future disease or disease susceptibility. Accurate prediction of future disease was first realized when detection of the gene for Huntington disease became a medical reality.. This first step was subsequently ex