Risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer in women: A systematic review to update the U.S. preventive services task force recommendation

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 255-266

  Nelson, Heidi D ^a   Pappas, Miranda ^a   Zakher, Bernadette ^a   Mitchell, Jennifer Priest ^a   Okinaka Hu, Leila ^a   Fu, Rongwei ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; DEPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; BRCA GENE; CANCER SCREENING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT WORRY; REVIEW; TUMOR GENE; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FALLOPIAN TUBE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

EID: 84894268890     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/m13-1684     Document Type: Article

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