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Knowledge, attitudes, and interest in breast-ovarian cancer gene testing: a survey of a large African-American kindred with a BRCA1 mutation.
Preventive medicine - 1 Dec 2001
Kinney A Y, Croyle R T, Dudley W N, Bailey C A, Pelias M K, Neuhausen S L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: This study assessed counseling and testing needs from the perspective of adult members of a large African-American kindred with a BRCA1 mutation. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 95 male and female kindred members to elicit information on sociodemographics, attitudes toward health care providers, breast cancer screening behaviors, and religious/spiritual beliefs, as well as to evaluate...
Topics
- Adult
- Black or African American
- Aged
- Black People
- Breast Neoplasms
- Educational Status
- Female
- Genes, BRCA1
- Genetic Testing
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Humans
- Income
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Ovarian Neoplasms