Economic evaluation of genetic screening for Lynch syndrome in Germany.

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Published in Genet Med on January 08, 2015

Authors

Franziska Severin1, Björn Stollenwerk1, Elke Holinski-Feder2, Elisabeth Meyer1, Volker Heinemann3, Clemens Giessen-Jung3, Wolf Rogowski1

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
2: Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany.
3: Department of Medical Oncology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.

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