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A practice guideline from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the National Society of Genetic Counselors: referral indications for cancer predisposition assessment

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The purpose of this practice guideline is to present a single set of comprehensive personal and family history criteria to facilitate identification and maximize appropriate referral of at-risk individuals for cancer genetic consultation.
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This article is published in Genetics in Medicine.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 393 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Referral & Guideline.

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Mutation Detection in Patients With Advanced Cancer by Universal Sequencing of Cancer-Related Genes in Tumor and Normal DNA vs Guideline-Based Germline Testing

Diana Mandelker, +88 more
- 05 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the proportion and potential clinical implications of inherited variants detected using simultaneous sequencing of the tumor and normal tissue (tumor-normal sequencing) compared with genetic test results based on current guidelines were identified.
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Prevalence of Germline Variants in Prostate Cancer and Implications for Current Genetic Testing Guidelines.

TL;DR: Current NCCN guidelines and Gleason scores cannot reliably stratify patients with prostate cancer for the presence or absence of pathogenic germline variants, which underscores the need to revisit current guidelines.
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New clinical criteria for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC, Lynch syndrome) proposed by the International Collaborative group on HNPCC.

TL;DR: The establishment of a set of selection criteria for families with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC, Lynch syndrome) to provide a basis for uniformity in collaborative studies and a definition of HNPCC was proposed that was aimed at helping clinicians to identify families.
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The International Collaborative Group on Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (ICG-HNPCC).

TL;DR: The International Collaborative Group on Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (ICG-HNPCC) H. Vasen, M. Mecklin, P. Lynch, and H. Meera Khan present a meta-analysis of 125 cases of patients with central giant cell carcinoma of the colon and rectum found to have had atypical EMTs.
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