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Libri Oncologici, 2020 Breast cancer (BC) represents 25% of all malignancies in Croatian women, and in 18.8% of cases, it is diagnosed before the age of 50. Croatia launched BRCA testing of people at increased family risk.
Snježana Ramić +4 more
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Infantile-onset Pompe disease (the first case diagnosed in Voronezh)
Нервно-мышечные болезни, 2015 Pompe disease (PD), or glycogen storage disease type II, is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal disease caused by glycogen storage in the myocardium, skeletal muscles, and liver.
V. P. Fedotov +5 more
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Improving comprehension of genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer clients with a visual tool. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 OBJECTIVE:Genetic counseling and testing can be offered to individuals who are at high risk of carrying a breast cancer (BRCA) gene mutation. However, the content of genetic counseling could be difficult to understand due to complex medical information ...
Muy-Kheng M Tea +8 more
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A Quantitative Simulation-based Modeling Approach for College Counseling Centers [PDF]
SIMULATION. 2023;0(0), 2022 College counseling centers in various universities have been tasked with the important responsibility of attending to the mental health needs of their students. Owing to the unprecedented recent surge of demand for such services, college counseling centers are facing several crippling resource-level challenges.
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Toward genetic counseling practice standards for diagnostic testing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. [PDF]
, 2023 Objective: Genetic counseling and diagnostic genetic testing are considered part of the multidisciplinary care of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Crook, A +3 more
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The new (liberal) eugenics [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the Nazi horrors, in 1953 the new eugenics was founded, when Watson and Crick postulated the double helix of DNA as the basis of chemical heredity.
Jeremy Gibbons, Nicolas Wu, Ralf Hinze
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Genetic counseling in melanoma [PDF]
Dermatologic Therapy, 2012 Genetic counseling may be offered to families with melanoma and to individuals with multiple melanomas to better understand the genetic susceptibility of the disease, the influence of environmental factors, the inheritance of the risk, and behavior that decreases the risk of dying from melanoma, including specific dermatological follow-up such as total
Badenas Orquin, Celia +5 more
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Cancer genetics education in a low- to middle-income country: evaluation of an interactive workshop for clinicians in Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Clinical genetic testing is becoming an integral part of medical care for inherited disorders. While genetic testing and counseling are readily available in high-income countries, in low- and middle-income countries like Kenya genetic testing is limited ...
Jessica A Hill +4 more
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Genetic counseling of patients with ovarian carcinoma:acceptance, timing, and psychological wellbeing [PDF]
, 2019 The new Dutch guidelines on hereditary and familial ovarian carcinoma recommend genetic testing of all patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). With this study, we aimed to obtain insight into (1) the acceptance and timing of the offer of genetic ...
Aalfs, C. M. +10 more
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Ethics in genetic counselling [PDF]
Journal of Community Genetics, 2018 Difficult ethical issues arise for patients and professionals in medical genetics, and often relate to the patient's family or their social context. Tackling these issues requires sensitivity to nuances of communication and a commitment to clarity and consistency. It also benefits from an awareness of different approaches to ethical theory. Many of the
Angus J. Clarke +1 more
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