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Racial distribution of patient population and family physician endorsed importance of screening patients for inherited predisposition to cancer.

Journal of health care for the poor and underserved - 1 Feb 2009

Gramling Robert, Clarke Jennifer, Simmons Emma

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Uptake of genetic testing is higher among racial majority versus minority patients for reasons that remain unclear. Primary care physicians represent the front line of screening for inherited cancer risk. We surveyed family physicians enrolled in the Massachusetts Practice Based Research Network to assess whether their attitudes about cancer-predictive genetic testing related to the race of their patients. Among...

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PMID: 19202245
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.0.0107

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