Programmed instruction: Cancer genetics: Genetic testing for cancer predisposition

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 285-300

  Biesecker, Barbara Bowles ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DECISION MAKING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ETHICS, NURSING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030804786     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-199708000-00009     Document Type: Review

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