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Coping with genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility.

Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2009

Dougall Angela Liegey, Smith Ashley W, Somers Tamara J, Posluszny Donna M, Rubinstein Wendy S, Baum Andrew

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OBJECTIVE: To examine how women cope with genetic testing for heightened susceptibility to breast cancer. METHODS: Participants were 126 White women (age = 44 +/- 9 years) who were participants in a larger study of genetic testing for risk of different chronic diseases. All women were at higher-than-average risk for breast cancer due to a personal and/or family history and were considering genetic testing....

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PMID: 19124622
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318190d7b4

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