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A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance

By Siddhartha Mukherjee , Theodora Ross MD

Book information

Publisher
Avery
Year
2017
ISBN
0147516900, 978-0147516909
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1119684 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Topic
Medicine Diseases
Time added
2018-11-10 12:08:28

Description

Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether the history of cancers in her family was simple bad luck or a sign that they were carriers of a cancer-causing genetic mutation. Then she was diagnosed with melanoma, and for someone with a dark complexion, melanoma made no sense. It turned out there was a genetic factor at work.

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