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Engaging in medical vigilance: understanding the personal meaning of breast surveillance.

Oncology nursing forum - 1 Nov 2011

Underhill Meghan L, Dickerson Suzanne S

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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To explore how women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer experience living with and managing that risk through surveillance. RESEARCH APPROACH: Hermeneutic phenomenology guided the qualitative research design. SETTING: The Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered online organization. PARTICIPANTS: 9 women undergoing breast surveillance for hereditary breast cancer risk recruited through...

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PMID: 22037331
DOI: 10.1188/11.ONF.686-694

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