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9780198529606

Risk Assessment And Management in Cancer Genetics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198529606

  • ISBN10:

    0198529600

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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-useguidelines 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.

Author Biography


Professor D. Gareth 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 Jan Friedman is editor of the journal Genetics in Medicine.

Table of Contents

Introduction
How to evaluate a family history
Guidelines for referral in Europe
Guidelines for genetic counselling, testing and referral in North America
Principles and applications of gene testing for common cancers
Risk assessment of common malignancies
Risk estimation in breast cancer
Risk estimation in colorectal cancer
Risk estimation in ovarian cancer
Management of familial breast and ovarian cancer in Europe
Management of familial breast and ovarian cancer in North America
Management of familial adenomatous polyposis and other inherited polyposis syndromes
Management of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer
Management and risk assessment of less common familial cancers
Inherited cancer syndromes
The neurofibromatoses
von Hippel-Lindau disease
Multiple endocrine neoplasias
Gorlin Syndrome
The Li-Frameni Syndrome
Other tumour predisposing syndromes
The ethical and insurance issues of cancer genetics
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