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Genetic counseling content: How does it impact health behavior?
Journal of behavioral medicine - 1 Oct 2015
Kelly Kimberly M, Ellington Lee, Schoenberg Nancy, Jackson Thomas, Dickinson Stephanie, Porter Kyle, Leventhal Howard, Andrykowski Michael
Abstract excerpt
Women with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer face decisions about screening (transvaginal ultrasound, CA125, mammography, breast exams) and proactive (before cancer) or reactive (after cancer) surgery (oophorectomy, mastectomy). The content of genetic counseling and its relation to these key health behaviors is largely unexamined. Ashkenazi Jewish women (n = 78) were surveyed through the process of genetic testing...
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