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Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle
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Case Study: Jim Mathis is a 45-year-old health-conscious man who has been a patient in an internal medicine–primary care practice for several years. At today’s visit, he talks about the family tree that he has sketched out and his discovery that three of his relatives had cancer — one had breast cancer, one ovarian cancer, and one prostate cancer.
