Exploring family relationships in cancer risk counseling using the genogram

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 4 II, 1999, Pages 393-398

  Daly, Mary ^a   Farmer, Jennifer ^b   Harrop Stein, Christine ^a   Montgomery, Susan ^a   Itzen, Mark ^a   Costalas, Josephine Wagner ^a   Rogatko, Andre ^a   Miller, Suzanne ^a   Balshem, Andrew ^a   Gillespie, Doris ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY COUNSELING; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OVARY CANCER; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PEDIGREE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; ROLE;

EID: 0032929790     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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