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BRCA mutation-negative women from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families: a qualitative study of the BRCA-negative experience.

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy - 1 Sept 2008

Bakos Alexis D, Hutson Sadie P, Loud Jennifer T, Peters June A, Giusti Ruthann M, Greene Mark H

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BACKGROUND: When women from families with a known BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation test negative for the family mutation, it is assumed that they will transition their personal cancer risk perception from high to average risk. However, there are scant data regarding the experience of mutation-negative wom...

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PMID: 18816319
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2008.00494.x
PMCID: PMC2803025

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