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"I have always believed I was at high risk..." The role of expectation in emotional responses to the receipt of an average, moderate or high cancer genetic risk assessment result: a thematic analysis of free-text questionnaire comments.
Familial cancer - 1 Sept 2010
Hilgart J, Phelps C, Bennett P, Hood K, Brain K, Murray A
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It is well-recognised that receipt of cancer genetic risk information can evoke a mix of both positive and negative emotional responses. Objective risk itself is not necessarily predictive of emotional response to receipt of risk information and the Cue Adaptive Reasoning Account (CARA; Renner, 2...
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