The relationship between psychological distress and personality in women from families with familial breast/ovarian or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer in the absence of demonstrated mutations

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 384-393

  Geirdal, Amy Østertun ^a   Dahl, Alv A ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Familial cancer; Personality traits; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILIAL BREAST OVARIAN CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 48449098625     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-008-9159-y     Document Type: Article

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