Is it time to embrace telephone genetic counseling in the oncology setting?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 611-612

  Madlensky, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECONSULTATION; VISUAL AID; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NOTE; OVARY TUMOR; TELEPHONE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84898821824     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.53.8975     Document Type: Editorial

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