BRCA testing: Ethics lessons for the new genetics

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-22

  Sherwin, Susan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1842790079     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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