Informing family members about a hereditary predisposition to cancer: attitudes and practices among clinical geneticists
If a hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer or breast cancer is diagnosed, most guidelines state that clinical geneticists should request index patients to inform their at-risk relatives about the existence of this condition in their family, thus enabling them to consider presymptomatic gene...
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BMJ Publ.
2010
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 36, Issue: 7, Pages: 391-395 |
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