Genetic counseling does not fulfill the counselees' need for certainty in hereditary breast/ovarian cancer families: An explorative assessment

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1167-1176

  Vos, Joël ^a   Menko, Fred H ^b   Oosterwijk, Jan C ^c   Van Asperen, Christi J ^a   Stiggelbout, Anne M ^a   Tibben, Aad ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coping; genetic counseling; impact; oncology; perception; psychology; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FAMILY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; BREAST TUMOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UNCERTAINTY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84877582973     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3125     Document Type: Article

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