Challenges to clinical utilization of hereditary cancer gene panel testing: perspectives from the front lines

Familial Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 641-649

  Marcus, Rebecca K ^a   Geurts, Jennifer L ^a   Grzybowski, Jessica A ^a   Turaga, Kiran K ^a   Clark Gamblin, T ^a   Strong, Kimberly A ^a   Johnston, Fabian M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atttitudes; Geneticist; Next generation sequencing; NGS guidelines; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEREDITARY CANCER GENE; HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GERMLINE MUTATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTILIZATION;

TUMOR MARKER;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84946479011     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: 15737292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-015-9817-9     Document Type: Article

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