Provides the clinician with a valuable tool for all aspects of patient care in inherited cancer syndromes, which may amount to up to 10% of all cancers. It presents the fundamental principles of assessing the genetic risk of cancer, the role of genetic counseling, ethical issues…
"The new edition of this book addresses the range of advances in the study of genetically caused abnormalities of human development. This edition features a wealth of color illustrations. The operating principle for organizing the clinical chapters remains one that is based on t…
The clinical picture of diseases, caused by trinucleotide repeats, such as fragile X syndrome, myotonic dystrophy, Huntington's disease and forms of spinocerebella ataxia, provide the starting point for this authoritative review volume. The book proceeds to integrate the current…