Self-reported cancer family history is a useful tool for identification of individuals at risk of hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome at primary care centers in middle-income settings: a longitudinal study

Self-reported cancer family history is a useful tool for identification of individuals at risk of hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome at primary care centers in middle-income settings: a longitudinal study

Abstract Analysis of cancer family history (CFH) offers a low-cost genetic tool to identify familial cancer predisposition. In middle-income settings, the scarcity of individual records and database-linked records hinders the assessment of self-reported CFH consistency as an indicator of familial ca...

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Main Authors: Milena Flória-Santos, Luís Carlos Lopes-Júnior, Larissa de Melo Alvarenga, Mayara Segundo Ribeiro, Victor Evangelista de Faria Ferraz, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento, Gabriela Pereira-da-Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2016-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
Genetic predisposition to disease
Risk factors
Neoplasms
Family
Pedigree
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