Common hereditary cancers and implications for primary care
Emery, Jon, Lucassen, Anneke and Murphy, Michael (2001) Common hereditary cancers and implications for primary care. Lancet, 358, (9275), 56-63. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)05257-0).
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The identification of genes that place individuals at high risk of breast, ovarian, and colorectal cancer has greatly advanced our understanding of cancer predisposition over the past decade. This knowledge has received much attention from the media, and referrals to geneticists and surgeons, and requests for genetic testing, have risen.
We review the published evidence for the management of people at increased risk of hereditary cancers, to draw attention to areas of uncertainty and to discuss implications for primary care. We focus on common inherited cancers, since they will have the greatest effect on clinical practice over the next decade. Cancer genetics offers a model of how information on the genetics of other common diseases could affect primary care in the future.
Strategies to support the integration of genetic medicine in primary care are needed to enable primary-care practitioners to identify individuals at raised genetic risk and to reassure patients for whom genetic testing and increased surveillance offer little benefit.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Review |
| ISSNs: | 0140-6736 (print) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Cancer Sciences |
| Item ID: | 40680 |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 02:20 |
| Contributors: | Emery, Jon (Author) Lucassen, Anneke (Author) Murphy, Michael (Author) |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Additional Information: | Review |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | jde10@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40680 |
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