Genetic Assessment

Genetic AssessmentWelcome to Genetic Assessment. The recognition of an inherited component to various cancers has led to an increase in demand for information, reassurance, and genetic testing, resulting in the creation of genetics clinics for familial cancer.

Cancer genetic services can involve extended counselling, specialist screening and genetic testing for mutations. Risk assessment is the first step in the process of providing information and support to patients and their families. Information on evidence-based methods of delivering cancer genetic risk assessment services is however sparse.

Thanks for visiting Genetic Assessment. We hope that the informative videos contained herein help in your understanding of the importance of genetic testing in the development of treatments for various forms of illnesses.

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The value of genetic tests for the healthcare system

Interview with Katherine Payne, health economist at The University of Manchester, UK, during the bid workshop ‘brains in dialogue on genetic testing’, 28-29 January 2010, Trieste ( Italy).

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Cancer Biology and Cancer Medicine

April 9, 2008 presentation by Nobel laureate Harold Varmus for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series. Nobel laureate Harold Varmus discusses the intersection of cancer biology and cancer medicine. Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, earned his Nobel Prize for discovering retroviral oncogenes that can cause cancer. That work changed the way people thought about cancer: Rather than being a disease caused by environmental exposure, it could result from mutations in specific genes. Now, much cancer research and the search for therapeutics focus on genetic changes in cancer. Stanford University School of Medicine: med.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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