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Sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical factors associated with uptake of genetic counselling for hereditary cancer: a systematic review.

Clinical genetics - 1 Aug 2017

Willis A M, Smith S K, Meiser B, Ballinger M L, Thomas D M, Young M-A

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Evidence suggests that a significant proportion of individuals referred to cancer genetic counselling (GC) do not attend, and thus may not be engaged in adequate cancer risk management. We aimed to review the literature to better understand barriers to accessing GC and how they may be overcome. We conducted a systematic literature search for articles examining factors influencing cancer GC uptake as well as...

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PMID: 27643459
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12868

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