Time to decide about risk-reducing mastectomy: A case series of BRCA1/2 gene mutation carriers

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McCullum, Mary ^a   Bottorff, Joan L ^b,c   Kelly, Mary ^b   Kieffer, Stephanie A ^b   Balneaves, Lynda G ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CONSULTATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 58749102454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-7-3     Document Type: Article

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