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Unpacking the blockers: understanding perceptions and social constraints of health communication in hereditary breast ovarian cancer (HBOC) susceptibility families.

Journal of genetic counseling - 1 Oct 2011

Peters June A, Kenen Regina, Hoskins Lindsey M, Koehly Laura M, Graubard Barry, Loud Jennifer T, Greene Mark H

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Family communication is essential for accurate cancer risk assessment and counseling; family blockers play a role in this communication process. This qualitative analysis of social exchanges is an extension of earlier work characterizing those who are perceived by study participants as health information gatherers, disseminators, and blockers within families with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC)...

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PMID: 21547418
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-011-9370-0
PMCID: PMC3412366

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