Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Confidentiality & the Risk of Genetic Discrimination: What Surgeons Need to Know.

Surgical oncology clinics of North America - 1 Oct 2015

Gammon Amanda, Neklason Deborah W

Abstract excerpt

In the past decade, laws have been passed to provide legal protections against genetic discrimination. Many members of the public and medical providers are unaware of the legislation, and concerns about genetic privacy can prevent delivery of optimal medical care. Patient health information, including genetic testing and family history, is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Confidentiality
Share to Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Share to Genetic Testing

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 26363536
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2015.06.004
PMCID: PMC4568442

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-08.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Confidentiality & the Risk of Genetic Discrimination: What Surgeons Need to Know.PMID 26363536Read ↗

Genetic Information, Non‐Discrimination, and Privacy Protections in Genetic Counseling PracticeSemantic proximity Read ↗

Rethinking medical confidentiality: the impact of genetics.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Reconsidering the duty to warn genetically at-risk relatives.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic information privacy and discrimination.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Ethics and genomic medicine, how to navigate decisions in surgical oncology.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Privacy of genetic information: a review of the laws in the United States.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Privacy and Confidentiality of Genetic Information: What Rules for the New Science?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Consent and confidentiality in clinical genetic practice: guidance on genetic testing and sharing genetic informationSemantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic privacy: the potential for genetic discrimination in insurance.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Can you keep a (genetic) secret? The genetic privacy movement.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic Testing: Disclosure to Patients and Payors and the Risks In Between.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic privacy.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.