BRCA 1/2 gene mutation testing-based cancer prevention and the moral concerns of different types of patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 889, Issue , 1999, Pages 240-243

  Goelen, Guido ^a   Rigo, Adelheid ^a   Bonduelle, Maryse ^a   De Grève, Jacques ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PREVENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ONCOGENE;

EID: 0033428170     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08740.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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