The importance of older family members in providing social resources and promoting cancer screening in families with a hereditary cancer syndrome

Gerontologist

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 833-842

  Ashida, Sato ^a   Hadley, Donald W ^b   Goergen, Andrea F ^b   Skapinsky, Kaley F ^b   Devlin, Hillary C ^b   Koehly, Laura M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Communication; Lynch syndrome; Social relationships; Social support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; COMMUNICATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 82155166781     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnr049     Document Type: Article

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