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Genetic susceptibility testing: ethical and social quandaries.

Health & social work - 1 Aug 1998

Freedman T G

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Breast cancer in the United States continues to be a serious public health problem that affects individuals, families, and society. The simultaneous rapid progress in mapping the human genome, the advances in technology, and the subsequent commercialization of genetic testing have made it possible for women to seek breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility testing before comparable social and psychological...

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PMID: 9702553
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/23.3.214

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