Can a computer-based system be used to educate women on genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility?

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-25

  Schwartz, Marc D ^a   Tercyak, Kenneth P ^b   Peshkin, Beth N ^b   Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer; Counselling; Genetic testing; Risk Perception

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 20644434909     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0055     Document Type: Short Survey

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