Concerns of women presenting to a comprehensive cancer centre for genetic cancer risk assessment [9]

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 526-530

  MacDonald, D J ^a   Choi, J ^a   Ferrell, B ^a   Sand, S ^a   McCaffrey, S ^a   Blazer, K R ^a   Grant, M ^a   Weitzel, J N ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LETTER; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036071366     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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