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The twilight zone between health and sickness: a qualitative exploration with asymptomatic BRCA1 and 2 mutation carriers.

Women & health - 1 Jun 2009

Dagan Efrat, Goldblatt Hadass

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PURPOSE: To explore the way in which asymptomatic women diagnosed with mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes give meaning to their family scripts and to the dialectic between being concurrently healthy and at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, vis-a-vis their way of coping with risks. METHODS: Seventeen asymptomatic Israeli women diagnosed as BRCA1 or 2 mutation carriers participated in the study. In-depth...

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PMID: 19753503
DOI: 10.1080/03630240903158321

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