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Living my family's story: identifying the lived experience in healthy women at risk for hereditary breast cancer.

Cancer nursing - 1 Jan 2000

Underhill Meghan L, Lally Robin M, Kiviniemi Marc T, Murekeyisoni Christine, Dickerson Suzanne S

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BACKGROUND: Based on known or suggested genetic risk factors, a growing number of women now live with knowledge of a potential cancer diagnosis that may never occur. Given this, it is important to understand the meaning of living with high risk for hereditary breast cancer. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to explore how women at high risk for hereditary breast cancer (1) form self-identity, (2) apply...

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PMID: 22544165
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31824530fa
PMCID: PMC3635541

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