Strategies for recruitment of relatives of BRCA mutation carriers to a genetic testing program in the Bahamas

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 182-186

  Trottier, M ^a   Lunn, J ^b   Butler, R ^c   Curling, D ^c   Turnquest, T ^c   Royer, R ^d,e   Akbari, M R ^d,e   Donenberg, T ^f   Hurley, J ^f   Narod, S A ^d,e  

^a Bahamas Breast Cancer Initiative Foundation   (Bahamas)

^b Doctor's Hospital   (Bahamas)

^c Princess Margaret Hospital Nassau   (Bahamas)

^d WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Breast cancer; Genetic counseling

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BRCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DAUGHTER; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAHAMAS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TESTING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84935070547     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12468     Document Type: Article

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