| Description |
xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Pt. I. Ethical, legal, and social issues, screening, counselling, gene and mutation detection. 1. The inherited basis of cancer / Shirley Hodgson and Gareth Evans. 2. Screening for cancer in those at high risk as a result of genetic susceptibility / Howard Cuckle. 3. Ethical and legal perspectives on inherited cancer susceptibility / Bartha Maria Knoppers and Beatrice Godard. 4. Cancer genetics and public expectations / Dorothy Nelkin. 5. Genetic counselling / June Peters. 6. Cancer genetics in primary care / Gene Feder and Michael Modell. 7. Genetic epidemiologic approaches to finding genes that influence susceptibility to cancer / Pamela St. Jean and Nicholas Schork. 8. Mutation detection / Louise Hosking, Karin Au and Philippe Sanseau -- Pt. II. Hereditary contribution to cancer: site-by-site and special groups. 9. Cancers of the digestive system / Tamar Flanders and William Foulkes. 10. Cancers of the breast, ovary, and uterus / William Foulkes and Steven Narod |
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11. Cancers of the kidney and urothelium / Eamonn Maher. 12. Cancers of the prostate and testes / Steven Narod, Bonnie King and David Hogg. 13. The neurofibromatoses and other neuro-oncological syndromes / Martin Ruttledge and Guy Roulean. 14. Malignant melanoma / Nicholas Hayward. 15. Non-melanoma skin cancer / David Goudie. 16. Endocrine cancers / Harriet Feilotter and Lois Mulligan. 17. Tobacco-related cancers of the respiratory and upper digestive tract / Zoltan Trizna and Stimson Schantz. 18. Inherited abnormalities of DNA processing and predisposition to cancer / A. Malcolm Taylor. 19. Childhood cancer / Kathy Pritchard-Jones. 20. Late-breaking developments / William Foulkes and Shirley Hodgson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Cancer -- Genetic aspects.
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Cancer -- Risk factors.
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Cancer -- Treatment -- Genetic aspects.
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Cancer -- Treatment -- Risk factors.
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Disease susceptibility -- Genetic aspects.
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Health risk assessment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Disease Susceptibility.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Genetic Counseling.
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Neoplasms.
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Neoplasms -- genetics.
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Genetic Counseling.
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Mutation -- genetics.
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Genetic Counseling.
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Mutation -- genetics.
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Neoplasms -- genetics.
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| Author |
Foulkes, William D. (William David), 1960-
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Hodgson, S. V.
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| LC no. |
97035998 |
| ISBN |
0521563402 |
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