Hereditary cancer syndromes
By: guest editor Ismail Jatoi
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 88, no. 4; Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 88, no. 4.
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 925
ISBN-13: 9781416063568
Subjects: Susceptibility; Genetic aspects; Cancer
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Cancer genetics : a primer for surgeons / John R. Benson and Siong-Seng Liau; title: Genetic testing for cancer susceptibility / Kathleen A. Calzone and Peter W. Soballe; title: The genetic information nondiscrimination act : why your personal genetics are still vulnerable to discrimination / Louise M. Slaughter; title: An overview of the role of prophylactic surgery in the management of individuals with a hereditary cancer predisposition / Tawakalitu Oseni and Ismail Jatoi; title: Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer : prophylactic surgical oncology implications / Henry T. Lynch ... [et al.]; title: Hamartomatous polyposis syndromes / Daniel Calva and James R. Howe; title: Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes : familial adenomatous polyposis and Lynch syndrome / Wigdan Al-Sukhni, Melyssa Aronson, and Steven Gallinger; title: Management of women who have a genetic predisposition for breast cancer / Ismail Jatoi and William F. Anderson; title: Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes / Glenda A. Callender, Thereasa A. Rich, and Nancy D. Perrier; title: Familial melanoma / Johan Hansson.