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The carrier clinic: an evaluation of a novel clinic dedicated to the follow-up of BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers--implications for oncogenetics practice.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2010
Bancroft E K, Locke I, Ardern-Jones A, D'Mello L, McReynolds K, Lennard F, Barbachano Y, Barwell J, Walker L, Mitchell G, Dorkins H, Cummings C, Paterson J, Kote-Jarai Z, Mitra A, Jhavar S, Thomas S, Houlston R, Shanley S, Eeles R A
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BACKGROUND: A novel oncogenetic clinic was established in 2002 at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust offering advice and specialist follow-up for families with a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2. The remit of this multidisciplinary clinic, staffed by individuals in both oncology and genetics, is to provide individualised screening recommendations, support in decision making, risk reducing strategies,...
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