Families' experience of oncogenetic counselling: Accounts from a heterogeneous hereditary cancer risk population

Familial Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-306

  Mendes, Alvaro ^a   Sousa, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Family; Genetic counselling; Grounded theory; Hereditary cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; ONCOGENETIC COUNSELING; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PORTUGAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84864713845     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: 15737292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-012-9514-x     Document Type: Article

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