Genetic counseling is the education of patients or their families about the risk of passing on an inherited predisposition for certain disorders, or the risk of having a certain disorder themselves. Katherine Hunt, genetic counselor at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, discusses the inheritance of colorectal cancer and several different hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes.
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