Notification of a family history of breast cancer: Issues of privacy and confidentiality

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Winter, Paula R ^a   Wiesner, Georgia L ^c,d   Finnegan, John ^a   Bartels, Dianne ^b   LeRoy, Bonnie ^b   Chen, Ping Ling ^a   Sellers, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Center for Human Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical ethics; breast cancer; confidentiality; family history; notification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE;

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; FAMILY MEMBERS; FEMALES; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; MALES; MINNESOTA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SURVEY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0029950492     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961202)66:1<1::AID-AJMG1>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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