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‘Be ready against cancer, now’: direct-to-consumer advertising for genetic testing

Bryn Williams-JonesGroupe de recherche en bioe´thique & Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Canada
Pages 89-107 | Published online: 16 Aug 2006

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John Lynch, Ashley Parrott, Robert J. Hopkin & Melanie Myers. (2011) Media Coverage of Direct‐to‐Consumer Genetic Testing. Journal of Genetic Counseling 20:5, pages 486-494.
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Sara Pirzadeh-Miller, Cecelia Bellcross, Linda Robinson & Ellen T. Matloff. (2011) Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: helpful, harmful, or pure entertainment?. Community Oncology 8:6, pages 263-268.
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Rose GeransarEdna Einsiedel. (2008) Evaluating Online Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Genetic Tests: Informed Choices or Buyers Beware?. Genetic Testing 12:1, pages 13-23.
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Bryn Williams-Jones & Vural Ozdemir. (2007) Challenges for Corporate Ethics in Marketing Genetic Tests. Journal of Business Ethics 77:1, pages 33-44.
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John M. Quillin. (2007) Book review: Building genetic medicine: Breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care. American Journal of Human Biology 19:5, pages 737-739.
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Vural OzdemirBryn Williams-JonesDan M CooperToshiyuki SomeyaBéatrice Godard. (2007) Mapping translational research in personalized therapeutics: from molecular markers to health policy. Pharmacogenomics 8:2, pages 177-185.
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