We are talking, but are they listening? Communication patterns in families with a history of breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC).

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This study explores how family communication patterns and family scripts influence the dissemination of genetic information and the sharing of feelings about genetic inheritance in families of healthy women who have attended a cancer genetics risk clinic because of their family history of breast and, or ovarian cancer. Family scripts are sets of expectations, beliefs, and norms that assign meaning to patterns of...

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