Beating the biological clock: The compressed family life cycle of young women with brca gene alterations

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 416-437

  Werner Lin, Allison ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Breast cancer; Couples; Family; Family planning; Genetics; Human development; Life course

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BREAST TUMOR; FAMILY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAMILY; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449477523     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981380802173509     Document Type: Article

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