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Genetics: breast cancer as an exemplar.

The Nursing clinics of North America - 1 Sept 2009

Hamilton Rebekah

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Genetic testing for adult-onset diseases is now available. One such test is for the mutations present in the BRCA gene that result in a significantly higher risk for the development of breast cancer or ovarian cancer. Women who have one of these mutations face difficult choices in terms of increa...

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PMID: 19683094
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.004
PMCID: PMC2748903

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