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Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny
  1. Judith Offman
  1. Research Associate, Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine,Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK; j.m.offman@qmul.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100526

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    Sue Friedman, Rebecca Sutphen, Kathy Steligo. Baltimore, MD, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-1-421-40408-0. Price: £10.00. Pages: 288 (paperback)

    This book is an excellent resource for lay people trying to understand and deal with inherited breast and ovarian cancer. This genetic predisposition is caused by inherited changes in a number of genes, including the BReast CAncer1 (BRCA1) and BRCA2 genes. By dividing the subject matter into four main parts the reader is taken slowly and step by step through all the different aspects.

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