Book[edited by] Ellen T. Matloff.
Summary: Genetic testing and counseling for cancer have made great strides in recent years. The popular demand for advanced screening, advances in testing, and the response of insurance companies and corporations have all served to shape this important area of cancer risk management. This practical, user-friendly guidebook allows you to search by disease site for the hereditary cancer syndromes relevant to your patient's cancer. This handy resource will help you formulate questions when expanding that patient's personal and family history, identify the genes that are most relevant, determine whether to refer that patient for genetic counseling and testing, and guide the patient's long-term management based on the patient's mutation-positive or -negative status. The guidebook will be of equal value to the practicing oncologist, surgeon, urologist, endocrinologist, gynecologist, primary care physician, physician's assistant, advanced practice nurse, and any other clinician counseling a patient who has had cancer. Informative overview summarizes the history and current state of genetic cancer testing. Site-specific chapters help you locate essential facts quickly. Expert contributors share their years of experience in genetic testing and counseling. Timely insights address key medical, ethical, legal, and financial implications of genetic cancer testing.
Contents:
Cancer genetic counseling / Ellen Matloff
Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing in hereditary cancer : impact on genetic testing and counseling / Julianne M. O'Daniel, Kristy Lee
Direct-to-consumer personal genome testing and cancer risk prediction / Cecelia A. Bellcross, Patricia Z. Page, Dana Meaney-Delman
Adverse events in cancer genetic testing : medical, ethical, legal, and financial implications / Karina L. Brierley [and others]
Genetic testing by cancer site : breast / Kristen M. Shannon, Anu Chittenden
Genetic testing by cancer site : ovary / Scott M. Weissman, Anna Newlin Shelly Weiss
Genetic testing by cancer site : colon (polyposis syndromes) / Kory Jasperson
Genetic testing by cancer site : colon (non-polyposis syndromes) / Leigha Senter
Genetic testing by cancer site : uterus / Molly S. Daniels
Genetic testing by cancer site : urinary tract / Gayun Chan-Smutko
Genetic testing by cancer site : pancreas / Jennifer S. Axilbund, Elizabeth A. Wiley
Genetic testing by cancer site : stomach / Nicolette M. Chun, James Ford
Genetic testing by cancer site : endocrine system / Robert Pilarski, Rebecca Nagy
Genetic testing by cancer site : skin / Michele Gabree, Meredit.