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Author Gibbon, Sahra

Title Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices : Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
Series Genetics and Society
Genetics and Society
Summary The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. In the intervening fifteen years, the medical institutionalisation of these knowledge-practices and accompanying medical techniques for assessing and managing risk have advanced at a rapid pace across multiple national and transnational arenas, whilst also themselves constituting a highly mobile and shifting terrain. Th
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Subject BRCA genes.
Breast -- Cancer -- Genetic aspects
Tumor markers.
Biomarkers, Tumor
BRCA genes
Breast -- Cancer -- Genetic aspects
Tumor markers
Form Electronic book
Author Joseph, Galen
Mozersky, Jessica
Zur Nieden, Andrea
Palfner, Sonja
ISBN 9781135925451
1135925453