Attitudes knowledge, risk perceptions and decision-making among women with breast and/or ovarian cancer considering testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 and their spouses

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 410-427

  Bluman, Leslie G ^a   Rimer, Barbara K ^b   Sterba, Katherine Regan ^c   Lancaster, Julia ^d   Clark, Shelly ^e   Borstelmann, Nancy ^a,f   Iglehart, J Dirk ^a,f   Winer, Eric P ^a,f  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Photosound Communications Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOUSE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK; SPOUSES;

EID: 0037961093     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.653     Document Type: Article

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