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Learning about a twist in the road: perspectives of at-risk relatives learning of potential for cancer.

Oncology nursing forum - 1 Nov 2010

Crotser Cheryl B, Dickerson Suzanne S

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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To describe the experiences of women who accessed the Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE) Web site after learning of a family BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. RESEARCH APPROACH: Interpretive phenomenology based on Heideggerian hermeneutics. SETTING: Telephone interviews of women living in the United States who accessed FORCE. PARTICIPANTS: A purposive sample of eight women aged 19-47 years....

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PMID: 21059584
DOI: 10.1188/10.ONF.723-733

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