Risk assessment and management in cancer genetics /
Lalloo, Fiona.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How to evaluate a family history / Bronwyn Kerr -- Guidelines for referral in Europe / Fred H. Menko -- Guidelines for genetic counselling, testing, and referral in North America / Susan Domchek and Barbara L. Weber -- Principles and applications of gene testing for common cancers / D. Gareth R. Evans, Pål Møller and Bronwyn Kerr -- Risk estimation in breast cancer / D. Gareth R. Evans, Bronwyn Kerr and Fiona Lalloo -- Risk estimation in colorectal cancer / Fiona Lalloo -- Risk estimation in ovarian cancer / D. Gareth R. Evans -- Management of familial breast and breast-ovarian cancer in Europe / Pål Møller -- Management of familial breast and ovarian cancer in North America / Barbara C. McGillivray -- Management of familial adenomatous polyposis and other inherited polyposis syndromes / E. Sheridan and R. S. Houlston -- The management of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer / H. F. A. Vasen, J. Burn, E. Sheridan, R. S. Houlston and F. Douglas -- Management and risk assessment of less common familial cancers / Sameer Jhavar and Rosalind Eeles -- The neurofibromatoses / J. M. Friedman -- Von Hippel-Lindau disease / Eamonn R. Maher -- Multiple endocrine neoplasias / Fiona Lalloo -- Gorlin syndrome / D. Gareth R. Evans -- Li-Fraumeni syndrome / J. M. Birch -- Other tumour predisposing syndromes / Fiona Lalloo and D. Gareth R. Evans -- The ethical and insurance issues of cancer genetics / Patrick J. Morrison.
Cancer
Genetic counselors.
Health risk assessment.
Genealogy.