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Psychological adjustment to familial genetic risk assessment: differences in two longitudinal samples.
Patient education and counseling - 1 May 2000
Ritvo P, Robinson G, Irvine J, Brown L, Matthew A, Murphy K J, Stewart D S, Styra R, Wang C, Mullen M, Cole D, Rosen B
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Heritable cancer risk assessment is an increasingly common method of deriving valuable information relevant to deciding on appropriate screening regimens and preventive treatments. Assessments of heritable risk typically include familial-genetic evaluation, where analyses relate family pedigree to cancer risk, and DNA testing, where analyses indicate genetic mutations associated with cancer risk (e.g.,...
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