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Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology Pages 461-462

Editorial
Cancer Genetic Counselling and Psycho-oncology
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Editorial

CANCER GENETIC COUNSELING AND PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY

The impact of genetics in cancer medicine has been marked in the three areas that define clinical cancer genetics: cancer genetic counseling, diagnostic cancer genetics and prognostic cancer genetics (1). Cancer genetic counseling has become popular owing to the recent development of genetic tests that pinpoint familial cancer risk. It is composed of presymptomatic risk assessment and management (cancer risk counseling) and reproductive risk counseling and the former has two components: risk assessment and counseling regarding behavioral, medical and surgical options to decrease risk. A basic goal of cancer risk counseling is to derive and explain an individual's cancer risk in clear terms and the counselor's role is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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