Inherited Cancer Syndromes Current Clinical Management [Paperback]

The second edition of Inherited Cancer Syndromes incorporates new genetic markers data with the clinical utility and practicality of the first edition.

This practical book is designed to educate physicians and health care workers about the genetic aspects, in the clinical setting, of inherited syndromes of cancer. The book incorporates new genetic markers data with the clinical utility of the first edition.

Using Genetic Information.- Genetic Counseling.- An Ethos of Genetic Testing.- Hereditary Breast Cancer Syndromes.- Gastrointestinal Polyposis Syndromes.- Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X.- The Familial Atypical Multiple Mole melanoma (FAMMM)  Pancreatic Carcinoma (PC) Syndrome.- Desmoid Disease.- Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer .- Hereditary Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies

From the reviews of the second edition:

This informative introduction to hereditary cancer syndromes is entirely appropriate for physicians and other clinicians who are not geneticists. It provides a thorough overview of hereditary cancer, detailing the core principles of cancer syndromes, which is extremely useful & in medicine today. & The book is intended for physicians & in genetics and hereditary cancer. & a much-needed overview of cancer syndromes for clinicians practicing outside the realm of hereditary cancer. (Heather H. Wetzel, Doodys Review Service, February, 2011)The advances in our understanding of genetics has exploded since the publication of the first edition of Inherited Cancer Syndromes. Weve moved from an incomplete understanding of the human genome to the availability of over-the-counter DNA analysis kits. There is simply too much complicated, high-level science for a busy clinician to meaningfully absorb without a filter. Inherited Cancer Syndromes is designed to bridge that gap.With this new edition, the clinical content has been expanded and clarified in order to be more tightly focused on the real-wol@