Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African- American women with and without a family history of breast cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 533-539

  Lipkus, Isaac M ^a,b   Iden, Deborah ^a   Terrenoire, Jennifer ^a   Feaganes, John R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b South Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; PEDIGREE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033006101     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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