Breast cancer genetics and managed care : The Kaiser Permanente experience

✍ Scribed by Susan E. Kutner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Volume: 86
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19991201)86:11+<2570::aid-cncr14>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

In 1996, with evolution of the science of cancer genetics and the advent of commercially available BRCA1 and later BRCA2 testing, Kaiser Permanente began to apply these advances in clinical practice. Recommendations for referral to genetic counseling were developed in 1997 as the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Referral for Genetic Counseling for Inherited Susceptibility for Breast and Ovarian Cancer. Implementation of these guidelines with associated protocols in Kaiser