Cancer Principles and Practice of Oncology: Handbook of Clinical Cancer Genetics handbook of clinical cancer genetics

• Main Author: Matloff, Ellen T.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2013
• Subjects: Genetic Counseling; Genetic Testing; Neoplasms > genetics; Neoplasms > prevention & control
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• Physical Description: viii, 232 p. ill. 23cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
• ISBN: 978-1451190984; 1451190980

Genetic testing and counseling for cancer have made great strides in recent years. The popular demand for advanced screening, advances in testing, and the response of insurance companies and corporations have all served to shape this important area of cancer risk management.This practical, user-friendly guidebook allows you to search by disease site for the hereditary cancer syndromes relevant to your patient's cancer. This handy resource will help you formulate questions when expanding that patient's personal and family history, identify the genes that are most relevant, determine whether to refer that patient for genetic counseling and testing, and guide the patient's long-term management based on the patient's mutation-positive or -negative status.