Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer

Part I. Ethical, legal and social issues, screening, counselling, gene and mutation detection: 1. The inherited basis of cancer Shirley Hodgson and Gareth Evans; 2. Screening for cancer in those at high risk as a result of genetic susceptibility Howard Cuckle; 3. Ethical and legal perspectives on inherited cancer susceptibility Bartha Maria Knoppers and Beatrice Godard; 4. Cancer genetics and public expectations Dorothy Nelkin; 5. Genetic counselling June Peters; 6. Cancer genetics in primary care Gene Feder and Michael Modell; 7. Genetic epidemiologic approaches to finding genes that influence susceptibility to cancer Pamela St. Jean and Nicholas Schork; 8. Mutation detection Louise Hosking, Karin Au and Philippe Schork; Part II. Hereditary contribution to cancer: site-by-site and special groups: 9. Cancers of the digestive system Tamar Flanders and William Foulkes; 10. Cancers of the breast, ovary and uterus William Foulkes and Steven Narod; 11. Cancers of the kidney and urothelium Eamonn Maher; 12. Cancers of the prostate and testes Steven Narod, Bonnie King and David Hogg; 13. The neurofibromatoses and other neuro-oncological syndromes Martin Ruttledge and Guy Rouleau; 14. Malignant melanoma Nicholas Hayward; 15. Non-melanoma skin cancer David Goudie; 16. Endocrine cancers Harriet Feilotter and Lois Mulligan; 17. Tobacco-related cancers of the respiratory and upper digestive tract Zoltan Trizna and Stimson Schantz; 18. Inherited abnormalities of DNA processing and predisposition to cancer A. Malcolm Taylor; 19. Childhood cancer Kathy Pritchard-Jones; 20. Late-breaking developments William Foulkes and Shirley Hodgson; Index.