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Quality of life and its relation to cancer-related stress in women of families with hereditary cancer without demonstrated mutation.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation - 1 Apr 2006
Geirdal Amy Østertun, Maehle Lovise, Heimdal Ketil, Stormorken Astrid, Møller Pål, Dahl Alv A
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BACKGROUND: Although quality of life (QoL) and mental distress in women belonging to familial cancer families have been studied, little is known on these matters in women with absence of demonstrated mutations. The aim of this study was to examine QoL and cancer-related distress in such women. METHODS: About 330 women at risk for familial cancers in the absence of demonstrated mutations were invited to the study....
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