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Family information service participation increases the rates of mutation testing among members of families with BRCA1/2 mutations.
The breast journal - 1 Jan 2000
Lynch Henry T, Snyder Carrie L, Lynch Jane F, Ghate Sumedha, Narod Steven A, Gong Gordon
Abstract excerpt
Some members of hereditary breast-ovarian cancer (HBOC) families may not participate in BRCA testing to determine their mutation status in part because they are unaware of their cancer risk and the availability of BRCA testing. Participation in a family information service (FIS), of which we have provided more than 100 sessions during the past 30 years, has been seen to effectively allow family members to be...
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