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Research Article: Eleven Years of Oncogenetic Consultations in a Swiss Center: Patient and Testing Characteristics

Date Published: 2023-11-09

Introduction:
Since the first description of familial cancer by Henry T. Lynch in the s, the field of oncogenetics has grown enormously. The development of age-based risk models allowed the calculation of the cancer risk based on patient and epidemiological data. Genetic testing emerged as a result of improved sequencing techniques and the isolation of germ-line cancer mutations with high penetrance, and became part of oncogenetic counseling. It has become part of routine care for cancer patients and is included in national…

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