Article
Emotional distress following genetic testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: A meta-analytic review.
1 Jan 2009
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Meta-analysis was used to synthesize results of studies on emotional consequences of predictive genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations conferring increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. DESIGN: Studies assessing anxiety or cancer-specific distress before and after provision of test results (k = 20) were analyzed using a random-effects model. Moderator variables included country of data collection...