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Challenging pedigrees seen in a hereditary cancer consultation center.
Cancer genetics and cytogenetics - 1 Sept 2004
Lynch Henry T, Tinley Susan T, Lynch Jane F, Attard Thomas M
Abstract excerpt
The clinical translation of the significance of cancer "running in families" has become a source of major contention as a result of the explosion of knowledge about cancer causality at the molecular level. At the clinical level, the increasing awareness of the familial and hereditary burden of cancer has contributed heavily to both physician and lay concern about cancer risk. Problems in interpretation of the...
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