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Caring for families with a family history of cancer: why concerns about genetic predisposition are missing from the palliative agenda.

Palliative medicine - 1 Mar 2011

Lillie Alison Kate, Clifford Collette, Metcalfe Alison

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Care of the family is integral to palliative care, but little attention has been paid to the way nurses, or other healthcare professionals, are responding to the needs of families who are concerned about whether their family history of cancer is associated with an inherited genetic predisposition. This paper discusses how palliative care nurses perceive the care needs of patients with a family history of cancer....

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PMID: 21228091
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310383738

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