Family information service and hereditary cancer
β Scribed by Henry T. Lynch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 91
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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enetic counseling is a communication process that deals with the psychologic, medical, and genetic issues associated with the occurrence or risk of occurrence of a genetic disorder within a family.
he American Cancer Society estimates that 1.25 million Americans T will develop cancer this year.' Approximately 550,000 die annually of neoplastic diseases, the second leading cause of death in the United States. Rising age-adjusted cancer mortality rates, together with the decline in heart disease
The family histories of individuals affected by a wide variety of cancers have provided information about the principal features of hereditary cancer. Surveillance protocols, indicating the most appropriate modalities and the age at which to initiate them, have been derived from what has been learne