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Relatives should be advised about the possible risks of hereditary cancer, options for risk assessment and management.

It is necessary to recommend genetic counseling and to consider genetic testing for at-risk relatives.

Figure 1.4. Identifying at-risk individuals in the family (by testing family members (adults) who wish to be tested to reassure non-carriers and monitor carriers). The targeted test in the 36-year-old female was positive and the test in the 29-year-old female was negative