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The narrative paradox of the BRCA gene: an ethnographic study in the clinical encounters of ovarian cancer patients.

Anthropology & medicine - 1 Dec 2020

Therond Clara, Lanceley Anne, Gibbon Sahra, Rahman Belinda

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In this era of personalisation a patient's molecular profile plays an increasingly central role in development and delivery of personalised medicine. This paper sets out to explore the sociocultural implications of mainstreaming BRCA genetic testing in the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer patients, who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation. It draws on ethnographic research conducted by between April-June 2016...

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PMID: 32009452
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2019.1663784

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