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Genetic Predisposition to Cancer

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Genetic predisposition to cancer: an introduction
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    Chapter 2 From families to chromosomes: genetic linkage, and other methods for finding cancer-predisposition genes
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    Chapter 3 From chromosomes to genes: how to isolate cancer-predisposition genes
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    Chapter 4 Retinoblastoma: the paradigm for a genetically inherited cancer syndrome
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    Chapter 5 Neurofibromatosis (NF) types 1 and 2
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    Chapter 6 Multiple endocrine neoplasia
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    Chapter 7 Wilms tumour and other genetic causes of renal cancer
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    Chapter 8 The Li-Fraumeni syndrome and the role of TP 53 mutations in predisposition to cancer
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    Chapter 9 Malignant disease and variations in radiosensitivity in ataxia telangiectasia patients
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    Chapter 10 Fanconi’s anaemia
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    Chapter 11 The Gorlin (nevoid basal cell carcinoma) syndrome
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    Chapter 12 Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy: sun sensitivity, DNA repair defects and skin cancer
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    Chapter 13 Genetics and the common cancers
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    Chapter 14 Familial breast cancer
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    Chapter 15 The breast-ovarian cancer syndrome and BRCA 1
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    Chapter 16 Screening for breast cancer in high-risk populations
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    Chapter 17 The management of women with a high risk of breast cancer
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    Chapter 18 Psychological distress associated with genetic breast cancer risk
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    Chapter 19 Familial ovarian cancer
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    Chapter 20 Familial colon cancer syndromes and their clinical management
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    Chapter 21 The genetics of familial colon cancer
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    Chapter 22 Familial prostate cancer and its management
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    Chapter 23 Familial melanoma and its management
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    Chapter 24 Familial predisposition to lung cancer
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    Chapter 25 The cancer family clinic
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    Chapter 26 Screening for mutations in cancer predisposition genes
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    Chapter 27 The ethics of testing for cancer-predisposition genes
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Title
Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
Published by
Springer US, November 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-4501-3
ISBNs
978-0-412-56580-9, 978-1-4899-4501-3
Editors

Eeles, Rosalind A., Ponder, Bruce A. J., Easton, Douglas F., Horwich, Alan

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 33%
Researcher 1 17%
Other 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 17%
Neuroscience 1 17%
Chemistry 1 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%

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