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1. REVIEW

   Hereditary cancer syndromes in Latino populations: genetic characterization and surveillance guidelines

   Marcia Cruz-Correa, Julyann Pérez-Mayoral, Julie Dutil, Miguel Echenique, Rafael Mosquera, Keila Rivera-Román, Sharee Umpierre, Segundo Rodriguez-Quilichini, Maria Gonzalez-Pons, Myrta I. Olivera and Sherly Pardo

   Published on: 21 January 2017
2. RESEARCH

   Anxiety and depression symptoms among women attending group-based patient education courses for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

   Wenche Listøl, Hildegunn Høberg-Vetti, Geir Egil Eide and Cathrine Bjorvatn

   Published on: 11 January 2017
3. RESEARCH

   How does genetic risk information for Lynch syndrome translate to risk management behaviours?

   Emma Steel, Andrew Robbins, Mark Jenkins, Louisa Flander, Clara Gaff and Louise Keogh

   Published on: 5 January 2017
4. RESEARCH

   Differences in neuropsychological and behavioral parameters and brain structure in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis: a sibling-paired study

   Ana Sánchez Azofra, Trilokesh D. Kidambi, Rita J. Jeremy, Peggy Conrad, Amie Blanco, Megan Myers, James Barkovich and Jonathan P. Terdiman

   Published on: 10 October 2016
5. RESEARCH

   Prevalence of the CHEK2 R95* germline mutation

   Stian Knappskog, Beryl Leirvaag, Liv B. Gansmo, Pål Romundstad, Kristian Hveem, Lars Vatten and Per E. Lønning

   Published on: 27 September 2016

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Meet the Editors-in-Chief

Jan Lubinski is a Professor of Medicine and Head of the International Hereditary Cancer Center (organized in 1992) of Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland. The center conducted the first world-wide population screening for cancer family syndromes in a 1.7 million region of West-Pomerania, Poland in 2000-2001. It has a network of outpatient clinics covering almost the entire country as well as a cancer bio-bank with biological samples and clinical data from 250,000 cancer cases and appropriate controls, which includes registries of thousands of mutation carriers.

Rodney J Scott graduated from the University of Western Australia, Australia with a PhD in cellular biology and subsequently worked in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas in Houston and then at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since 1999 Prof. Scott has been a visiting Professor at the International Hereditary Cancer Center in Szczecin, Poland and more recently has been appointed as a adjunct Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Rolf Sijmons has worked as a clinical geneticist in the field of oncogenetics for more than 20 years. He is Consultant in Clinical Oncogenetics and Professor of Medical Translational Genetics at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interests mainly focus on the genetics of colorectal cancer, the clinical interpretation of unclassified variants, bioinformatics tools to support clinical management of cancer families and clinical applications of nextgen sequencing technology. He is member of several international committees in these fields and is editor of the familial cancer database.

Society affiliations

Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice is the official journal of the International Hereditary Cancer Centre and is published under the auspices of International Union Against Cancer.

            

The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie) provide funds for the publication of articles in this journal.