Communicating genetic test results to the family: A six-step, skills-building strategy

Family and Community Health

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 13-26

  Daly, Mary B ^c   Barsevick, Andrea ^c   Miller, Suzanne M ^a   Buckman, Robert ^b   Costalas, Josephine ^c   Montgomery, Susan ^c   Bingler, Ruth ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

BRCA1 and BRCA2; Communication skills; Genetic risk; Genetic testing; Hereditary breast ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035489030     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200110000-00004     Document Type: Article

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