Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmiegelow, Kjeld

Titel

Cancer in childhood and inheritance

Ist Teil von

• Ugeskrift for læger, 2006-06, Vol.168 (24), p.2373

Ort / Verlag

Denmark

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Five percent of childhood cancers reflect well-known hereditary cancer disposition syndromes. Hereditary cancer disposition syndromes should be considered when the cancer in question frequently is hereditary, when several related cancers occur in the same family, or in the presence of congenital malformations. Genetic counselling requires specialist training and should focus on the risk of developing cancer among family members, the risk of a second cancer in the patient, the possibility of prenatal diagnosis of the cancer disposition syndrome, and the advantages of prophylaxis and of early cancer diagnosis through screening.