Breast cancer screening for Korean women must consider traditional risks as well as two genetic risk factors: Genetic polymorphisms and inheritable gene mutations

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-222

  Anderson, Gwen ^a   Jun, Myunghee ^a,b   Choi, Kyungsook ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Daejeon University   (South Korea)

^c Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Epidermiology; Genetics; Korean women; Transcultural nursing

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KOREA; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MUTATION; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KOREA; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347214121     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000270705.41919.dc     Document Type: Review

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