Discusión ética y legal del asesoramiento genético en paciente portadora de una variación patológica en RAD51D

In the field of the genetics of the cancer, advances in technological innovation have helped to detect low prevalence deleterious variation in genes within the population that still are under investigation. This means that little scientific evidence is available concerning the risk that these variations might constitute as regards the susceptibility of developing cancer. The difficult task of genetically assessing and reporting on the early detection, the prophylactic actions, and follow-up of these cases, as detailed herein, has important implications from an ethical and legal point of view, but hardly anything about them has been discussed in the literature.