Breast cancer in China: Demand for genetic counseling and genetic testing [1]

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-197

  Wen, Jie Zhang ^a   You, Jun Gao ^a   Qing, Bo Li ^a   Xu, Dan ^a  

^a ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRCA2 GENE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CHINA; CHINESE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; ONCOGENE; ADULT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33645824316     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gim.0000204459.45865.f3     Document Type: Letter

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