Coping with genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-105

  Dougall, Angela Liegey ^a,d   Smith, Ashley W ^a,e   Somers, Tamara J ^a,f   Posluszny, Donna M ^b   Rubinstein, Wendy S ^b,g   Baum, Andrew ^c,d,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^e Applied Research Program   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCA 1; BRCA 2; Breast cancer; Coping; Genetic testing; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 65549104429     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318190d7b4     Document Type: Article

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