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Medical Genetics

Risk Assessment and Management in Cancer Genetics

edited by Fiona Lalloo, Bronwyn Kerr, J.M. Friedman & D. Gareth R. Evans

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2005
Category
Genetics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780198529606
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $195.00

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Description

The need to expand expertise in cancer genetics beyond highly specialized genetics clinics is increasingly being recognized. In response, this practical book provides oncologists, specialist nurses, genetic counsellors, family doctors, and geneticists with comprehensive and easy-to-use guidelines on risk assessment and appropriate management.

The book focuses on common familial cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovary, prostate and melanoma, and separate chapters cover cancer predisposing syndromes such as neurofibromatosis, familial adenomatous polyposis and their management.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Professor Evans is secretary of the UK Cancer Genetics Group. He was chairman of the UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines on familial breast cancer, Chairman of the International Collaborative Group on Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer and on the Editorial Board of Familial Cancer. Professor Friedman is Associate Editor of the journals Genetics in Medicine and Birth Defects Research: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, and a member of the editorial board of Clinical Genetics