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Recruitment, Genetic Counseling, and <i>BRCA</i> Testing for Underserved Women at a Public Hospital

1 Dec 2005

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Genetic counseling and testing for heritable susceptibility to breast cancer caused by mutations in BRCA genes are largely unavailable to underserved women in the United States. Starting in 2002 the UCSF Cancer Risk Program offered this service free of charge to poor and medically indigent women at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). One recruitment strategy was a single-page questionnaire in four languages...

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PMID: 16379544
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2005.9.306

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