Family history of breast cancer: Impact on the disease experience

Cancer Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 135-142

  Petrisek, Ann ^a   Campbell, Susan ^a   Laliberte, Linda ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Family history of disease; Illness experience; Treatment receipt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAMILY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIGREE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RHODE ISLAND; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 0034107650     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.2000.83007.x     Document Type: Article

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