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Adaptation of couples living with a high risk of breast/ovarian cancer and the association with risk-reducing surgery.

Familial cancer - 1 Oct 2018

Shapira Rachel, Turbitt Erin, Erby Lori H, Biesecker Barbara B, Klein William M P, Hooker Gillian W

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Women who carry BRCA1/2 mutations have a significantly elevated risk for breast and ovarian cancer. The positive test result and subsequent decisions about risk reducing behaviors can evoke distress, anxiety and worry. Psychological adaptation, or the process of coming to terms with the implications of a health threat, is an understudied construct in BRCA1/2 carriers. Little is known about adaptation and how it...

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PMID: 29209897
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-017-0065-z
PMCID: PMC7329295

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