Organization and Running of the First Comprehensive Hereditary Cancer Clinic in India

Hereditary cancers are thought to account for around 5% of cancers, particularly breast/ovarian and colorectal cancers. In India there is a paucity of data on hereditary cancers and the mutations in some of the common genes linked to hereditary cancers, such as BRCA1, BRCA2, hMSH2 and hMLH1. The cou...

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Autores principales: Rajkumar, T, Soumittra, N, Vidubala, E, Sridevi, V, Mahajan, V, Ramanan, SG, Vijaya, S
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20223043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1897-4287-3-4-165
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author Rajkumar, T
Soumittra, N
Vidubala, E
Sridevi, V
Mahajan, V
Ramanan, SG
Vijaya, S
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description Hereditary cancers are thought to account for around 5% of cancers, particularly breast/ovarian and colorectal cancers. In India there is a paucity of data on hereditary cancers and the mutations in some of the common genes linked to hereditary cancers, such as BRCA1, BRCA2, hMSH2 and hMLH1. The country's first comprehensive hereditary cancer clinic was established in February 2002. The article describes the organization and running of the Clinic. It also discusses some of the social issues relevant to the given population in running the Hereditary Cancer Clinic.
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spelling pubmed-28370592010-03-12 Organization and Running of the First Comprehensive Hereditary Cancer Clinic in India Rajkumar, T Soumittra, N Vidubala, E Sridevi, V Mahajan, V Ramanan, SG Vijaya, S Hered Cancer Clin Pract Research Hereditary cancers are thought to account for around 5% of cancers, particularly breast/ovarian and colorectal cancers. In India there is a paucity of data on hereditary cancers and the mutations in some of the common genes linked to hereditary cancers, such as BRCA1, BRCA2, hMSH2 and hMLH1. The country's first comprehensive hereditary cancer clinic was established in February 2002. The article describes the organization and running of the Clinic. It also discusses some of the social issues relevant to the given population in running the Hereditary Cancer Clinic. BioMed Central 2005-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2837059/ /pubmed/20223043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1897-4287-3-4-165 Text en
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