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Breast and ovarian cancer referrals to the ACT Genetic Service: are we meeting guidelines?

Internal medicine journal - 1 Mar 2017

Aitken Lucy, Warwick Linda, Davis Alison

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BACKGROUND: The ACT Genetic Service at The Canberra Hospital evaluates the genetic risk of individuals for inherited diseases, and provides counselling and genetic testing where appropriate. AIM: To evaluate the current referral practice for patients with a personal and/or family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer, and to assess whether these referrals are made according to eviQ cancer referral guidelines....

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PMID: 28019080
DOI: 10.1111/imj.13357

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