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Beating the biological clock: the compressed family life cycle of young women with BRCA gene alterations.

Social work in health care - 1 Jan 2008

Werner-Lin Allison

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Empirical and clinical literature suggests a temporal thread running through family narratives of hereditary disease, linking past experiences to current beliefs about risk. This study asked young women with elevated risk of developing hereditary breast or ovarian cancer (HBOC) how their family histories with cancer and their gene status inform meaning construction around cancer risk and family development....

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PMID: 19042494
DOI: 10.1080/00981380802173509

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