Knowledge, attitudes and behavior of physicians regarding predictive genetic tests for breast and colorectal cancer

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 477-482

  Marzuillo, Carolina ^a   De Vito, Corrado ^a   Boccia, Stefania ^b,c   D'Addario, Maddalena ^a   D'Andrea, Elvira ^a   Santini, Paola ^a   Boccia, Antonio ^a   Villari, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cancer predictive genetic tests; Cross sectional survey; Knowledge; Physicians; Professional behavior

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SELF CONCEPT;

ATTITUDES; CANCER PREDICTIVE GENETIC TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY; KNOWLEDGE; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84885859313     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.06.022     Document Type: Article

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