27 8 Endocrine-Related P Brock, J L Geurts et al. Genetic counseling and 27:8 T65–T75 Cancer endocrine neoplasias THEMATIC REVIEW HEREDITARY ENDOCRINE TUMOURS: CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Challenges and opportunities in genetic counseling for hereditary endocrine neoplasia syndromes Pamela Brock1,*, Jennifer L Geurts2,*, Paulien Van Galen3, Erica Blouch4, James Welch5, Amy Kunz6, Lauren Desrosiers7, Jennifer Gauerke8 and Samuel Hyde9 1Divison of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 3Hereditary Cancer Clinic and Hereditary Endocrine Clinic, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, USA 4Center for Cancer Risk Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 5Metabolic Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 6Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 7Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA 8Center for Individualized Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 9Clinical Cancer Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA Correspondence should be addressed to S Hyde:
[email protected] *(P Brock and J L Geurts contributed equally to this work) This paper is part of a thematic section on current