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Family illness narratives of inherited cancer risk: continuity and transformation.

Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare - 1 Sept 2009

Werner-Lin Allison, Gardner Daniel S

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Family narratives of genetic disease address multigenerational legacies of illness, guide expectations about future diagnoses and anticipated losses, and promote continuity and coherence. Yet contemporary families with histories of genetic disease face the challenge of integrating long-standing family illness narratives with technological advances in the detection and treatment of the identified disease. The...

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PMID: 19803615
DOI: 10.1037/a0016983

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