Genetics services in the community.

Genetics services in the community.

Community genetics and community medicine.

In the decades to come, molecular genetic insights and techniques will have great influence on prevention and health care. Health care providers should anticipate important new developments rather than just wait and see. For community doctors, who can impossibly oversee all relevant developments in sufficient detail, close communication with the community and clinical genetic specialists is nec...

Cancer Genetics Services in the UK

The National Health Service is the principal provider of free healthcare services, through general practitioners offering primary care to a network of District and Regional or University Teaching hospitals. Medical Genetics has a long history in the UK, although it was not recognised formally until the 1970s. Regional Genetics Centres, providing an integrated clinical and laboratory service, ha...

Cancer Genetics Services in Europe

S. Hodgson, B. Milner, I. Brown, G. Bevilacqua, J. Chang-Claude, D. Eccles, G. Evans, H. Gregory, P. Møller, P. Morrison, M. Steel, D. Stoppa-Lyonnet, H. Vasen and N. Haites Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s Hospital, London Bridge, London SE1 9RT, UK Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK Institute ...

Community genetics in developing countries.