BreastHealthLink Home Page

Breast Cancer Awareness|Signs of Breast Cancer |Are you at risk |Glossary | Resources | Lifestyle and wellbeing

Resources

Familial Breast Cancer

Websites

(These links will take you to other websites. We make every effort to ensure that these links work and do test them at regular intervals. However there is always a risk that the page or site address has changed or the site is not available. If you get a message that the page is not available, press the back arrow to get back to this page and email us - external link fail (so we can fix the problem).

Familial Breast Cancer
Familial Cancer Syndromes a Focus of Cancer Genetics Research
Advice about familial aspects of Breast Cancer

Books

Title Author ISBN Topics
Women's Cancers: How to Prevent them, How to Treat them; How to Beat them Kerry A McGinn; Pamela J Haylock Hunter House By a survivor and a daughter of a cancer patient. Easy to use resource guide.

Articles

Title Publication & Volume Page
Learning more about a Family's Breast Cancer Risk THE BEACON winter 2001 Issue 15 1
Explaining the Familial Aspects of Breast Cancer THE BEACON winter 2001 Issue 15 5,6,7
The need for Risk Management THE BEACON winter 2001 Issue 15 6
Brief Encounters in a Familial Cancer Clinic THE BEACON winter 2001 Issue 15 7
Sentinel Node Trial Launched in Canberra THE BEACON winter 2001 Issue 15 9
How do Families Cope with Breast Cancer diagnosis? THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 1
The Need of Families: the mother... Real pain and endurance THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 4
The Need of Families: the husband... Taking it one day at a time THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 4
The Need of Families: the daughter... Who do we turn to for comfort? THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 5
The Need of Families: The Husband..Positive, Open & Supportive THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 5
Living with Cancer & Living with Children THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 6
Pregnancy After Breast Cancer THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 7
Meet Our Representatives..Gerda Evans THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 7
Breast Cancer and Inherited Risk THE BEACON winter 1999 Issue 7 11
Looking for answers in the genetic dictionary THE BEACON spring 2000 Issue 12 5
Locking in on a moving target THE BEACON spring 2000 Issue 12 6
A positive future across generations THE BEACON spring 2000 Issue 12 7
Investigation of Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion in Familial Breast Cancer, Ozcelik, Hilmi, OCT 2000 This government report was prepared by the Pentagon and has been approved for public release through the National Technical Information Service 13 pages
Genetic Alterations in Familial Breast Cancer: Mapping and Cloning Genes Other T, King, Mary C.; Winkelstein, Warren, Jr, SEP 1998 This government report was prepared by the Pentagon and has been approved for public release through the National Technical Information Service. 26 pages

Publications from the National Breast Cancer Centre on this topic.

You can use the links in this section to look at these or to get copies sent to you.

Risk Factors

Guidelines and recommendations

  • Advice about familial aspects of breast cancer and ovarian cancer: a guide for health professionals (card)

Reports, research and data reviews

  • Some public health issues in the current state of genetic testing for breast cancer in Australia
  • Summary of risk factors for breast cancer

Information for consumers

  • Breast cancer and family history: what you need to know (booklet)
  • Information for women considering preventive mastectomy because of a strong family history of cancer. NB This booklet is intended for use primarily by breast surgeons, breast specialists, oncologists, family cancer clinics and genetic counselling services.
  • WEBSITE ONLY Best advice on familial aspects of breast cancer: a guide for general practitioners. Phase 2: Evaluation
  • WEBSITE ONLY Current best advice about familial aspects of breast cancer: a guide for general practitioners (card)
  • WEBSITE ONLY Evaluation of best advice on familial aspects of breast cancer for general practitioners

Contacts

Family cancer clinics and genetics services

The list below has contact details of specialist family cancer clinics and genetic counselling services throughout Australia.

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra Genetic Counselling Clinic
Canberra Hospital WODEN VALLEY ACT 2606
Phone: (02) 6244 4042

 
New South Wales

Hereditary Cancer Clinic
Prince of Wales Hospital
RANDWICK NSW 2031
Phone: (02) 9382 2577

Familial Cancer Service
Westmead Hospital
WESTMEAD NSW 2145
Phone: (02) 9845 5079

Familial Cancer Service
Liverpool Hospital
LIVERPOOL NSW 2170
Phone: (02) 9828 4665

Hunter Family Cancer Service
WARATAH NSW 2298
Phone: (02) 4985 3132

Victoria

Familial Cancer Centre
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002
Phone: (03) 9656 1199

Monash Medical Centre Familial Cancer Centre
CLAYTON VIC 3168
Phone: (03) 9594 2026

The RMH Family Cancer Genetics Centre
Royal Melbourne Hospital
PARKVILLE VIC 3052
Phone: (03) 9342 7151

The VCGS Family Cancer Genetics Centre
Victorian Clinical Genetic Services
Royal Children's Hospital
PARKVILLE VIC 3052
Phone: (03) 8341 6200

Familial Cancer Clinic
Outpatients Breast Clinic
Austin Repatriation Hospital
WEST HEIDELBERG VIC 3081
Phone: (03) 9496 5000 (page 3494)
 
Queensland

Queensland Clinical Genetics Service
Herston Hospital Complex
HERSTON QLD 4029
Phone: (07) 3636 1686

Brisbane North Breast Cancer Family History Clinic
CHERMSIDE QLD
Phone: (07) 3350 7411

South Australia
Familial Cancer Unit
SA Clinical Genetics Service
Women's and Children's Hospital
NORTH ADELAIDE SA 5006
Phone: (08) 8204 7375 or (08) 8204 7010
 
Western Australia
Genetic Services of Western Australia
King Edward Memorial Hospital
SUBIACO WA 6008
Phone: (08) 9340 1525
Breast Assessment Clinic
Royal Perth Hospital
PERTH WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9224 2723
 



Disclaimer
| Privacy