title: Hereditary cancer risk assessment: insights and perspectives for the Next-Generation Sequencing era.
abstract: Hereditary cancer risk assessment is a multidisciplinary and dynamic process, with the purpose of estimating probabilities of germline mutations in cancer susceptibility genes and assessing empiric risks of cancer based on personal and family histories, in order to offer clinical and molecular diagnoses and clinical management based on these risks. Genetic tests are available and most of them are reimbursed by insurance companies, although they are generally not covered by the public health systems of developing countries. More recently, molecular diagnosis of hereditary cancer is feasible through next-generation sequencing (NGS) panels. Here we review the benefits and limitations of NGS technologies in the clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Hematologia e Oncologia de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Israel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gomy
authors.affiliation: Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Del Pilar Estevez
authors.initials: Mdel P
authors.lastname: Diz