Risk assessment and management in cancer genetics
By: edited by Fiona Lalloo ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lalloo, Fiona.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780198529606
Subjects: Cancer -- Genetic aspects; Genetic counselors; Health risk assessment; Genealogy; Neoplasms -- genetics; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Neoplasms -- therapy; Risk Assessment -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to evaluate a family history / Bronwyn Kerr; title: Guidelines for referral in Europe / Fred H. Menko; title: Guidelines for genetic counselling, testing, and referral in North America / Susan Domchek and Barbara L. Weber; title: Principles and applications of gene testing for common cancers / D. Gareth R. Evans, Pål Møller and Bronwyn Kerr; title: Risk estimation in breast cancer / D. Gareth R. Evans, Bronwyn Kerr and Fiona Lalloo; title: Risk estimation in colorectal cancer / Fiona Lalloo; title: Risk estimation in ovarian cancer / D. Gareth R. Evans; title: Management of familial breast and breast-ovarian cancer in Europe / Pål Møller; title: Management of familial breast and ovarian cancer in North America / Barbara C. McGillivray; title: Management of familial adenomatous polyposis and other inherited polyposis syndromes / E. Sheridan and R. S. Houlston; title: The management of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer / H. F. A. Vasen, J. Burn, E. Sheridan, R. S. Houlston and F. Douglas; title: Management and risk assessment of less common familial cancers / Sameer Jhavar and Rosalind Eeles; title: The neurofibromatoses / J. M. Friedman; title: Von Hippel-Lindau disease / Eamonn R. Maher; title: Multiple endocrine neoplasias / Fiona Lalloo; title: Gorlin syndrome / D. Gareth R. Evans; title: Li-Fraumeni syndrome / J. M. Birch; title: Other tumour predisposing syndromes / Fiona Lalloo and D. Gareth R. Evans; title: The ethical and insurance issues of cancer genetics / Patrick J. Morrison.