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Mary-Anne Young
Surgical Oncology
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Open AccessClinical applications of polygenic breast cancer risk: a critical review and perspectives of an emerging field
Polygenic factors are estimated to account for an additional 18% of the familial relative risk of breast cancer, with those at the highest level of polygenic risk distribution having a least a twofold increase...
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Open AccessThe PiGeOn project: protocol of a longitudinal study examining psychosocial and ethical issues and outcomes in germline genomic sequencing for cancer
Advances in genomics offer promise for earlier detection or prevention of cancer, by personalisation of medical care tailored to an individual’s genomic risk status. However genome sequencing can generate an u...
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Open AccessThe PiGeOn project: protocol for a longitudinal study examining psychosocial, behavioural and ethical issues and outcomes in cancer tumour genomic profiling
Genomic sequencing in cancer (both tumour and germline), and development of therapies targeted to tumour genetic status, hold great promise for improvement of patient outcomes. However, the imminent introducti...
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Open AccessPsychosocial and behavioral impact of breast cancer risk assessed by testing for common risk variants: protocol of a prospective study
The ‘common variant, common disease’ model predicts that a significant component of hereditary breast cancer unexplained by pathogenic variants in moderate or high-penetrance genes is due to the cumulative eff...
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Open AccessThe attitudes of people with sarcoma and their family towards genomics and incidental information arising from genetic research
The study aimed to examine attitudes of individuals diagnosed with sarcoma and their family members towards genetics, genomic research and incidental information arising as a result of participating in genetic...
