TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 7. Establishing a Cancer Genetics Service A1 - MacDonald, Deborah J. A2 - Kuerer, Henry M. PY - 2010 T2 - Kuerer's Breast Surgical Oncology AB - Given the accumulating evidence documenting the efficacy of genetic screening and risk-reduction interventions, genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA) has become a medical standard-of-care option for persons with a personal and/or family history of cancer suggestive of increased cancer risk.1-5 GCRA utilizes rapidly evolving genetic technologies along with established empiric risk models to estimate cancer risk and provide age- and risk-level appropriate cancer prevention and risk-reduction strategies for individuals and their family members. The ultimate value of GCRA is the opportunity for initiation of early detection or risk-reducing strategies that would be most effective in minimizing cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality, by identifying persons at increased cancer risk prior to the onset of an initial or subsequent cancer. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6406041 ER -